PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "717050"]

Abstract:
A board with preformed seals. In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing material is applied to at least one edge of a board to form a preformed seal on that edge. The board is configured such that when the board is attached to a frame adjacent to a another board, at least a portion of the sealing material applied to the edge of the board seals against at least a portion of an edge another board. In one exemplary embodiment, the boards are configured to seal against edges of substantially identical boards. A plurality of the sheathing boards may be installed on a building frame to form a sheathing system that provides a moisture and/or gas barrier between and interior and exterior of a building.

Claim (Index 57):
The method of  claim 51 , wherein attaching the rigid board to the frame comprises attaching the rigid board to the frame by conventional mechanical fasteners that compress the compressible foam sealing material against the frame to form the air tight and moisture tight seal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27586
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15177664', '13073170', '14311007', '12766950', '14749719']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8181919546849971
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5337273545244273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7897454946689401
- Mean Citation Score: 261.20680600000003
- Max Citation Score: 369.04108
- Similarity Product: 301.20394526757235

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test