PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["405", "157000"]

Abstract:
A new use for Litz wire is described. Litz wire is used as “bare” tracer wire, as tracer wire within known woven polyester or aramid fiber pull tape and as tracer wire within a known marker tape. Litz marker tape is described which is a novel type of marker tape is wherein Litz wire is incorporated into the structure of conventional marker tape so that the marker tape may be remotely located and mapped once it has been buried underground. In addition a method is disclosed for determining the proper size of an individual strand of wire in a Litz wire bundle which is going to be used as Litz pull tape or as Litz marker tape. In addition a method of emplacing Litz wire tracer wire or marker tape using a horizontal boring machine is disclosed.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of emplacing marker wire and a utility line at the same time in a pullback operation comprising the steps of:\n drilling an underground, borehole using a known directional drilling machine comprising a known drilling head, from a fixed starting position on the soil surface to a target site near or on the soil surface but separated from the known starting position by a predetermined distance, affixing a utility line to the drilling head at the target site in a known manner, providing a marker tape comprising a woven fabric tape with Litz wire embedded therein along the longitudinal extent of said tape except for a predetermined portion at one end of the woven fabric tape, affixing said marker tape to the drilling head at the target site by tying said predetermined portion of said marker tape to said drilling head, and withdrawing said drilling head back through the borehole to the fixed starting position using a pullback step, whereby the utility line is installed in the borehole and the marker tape is also installed in the borehole at the same time during the pullback step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07143
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13079122', '12762279', '11269447', '15820255', '14693748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7430120210707902
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966186390682525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7183726828705365
- Mean Citation Score: 188.689048
- Max Citation Score: 220.79254
- Similarity Product: 147.40106809831738

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

Dataset: test