PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["002", "461000"]

Abstract:
An article of apparel includes a padding system that dynamically changes configuration in response to an impending impact. The padding system may change from a state that has a high flexibility and offers low protection from impact to a state that has a low flexibility and offers increase protection from impact. The system may use a filament to constrict a plurality of padding elements together in order to increase the overall stiffness of the pad. The filament may be tightened and loosened by a spool. The spool may receive a signal regarding the impending impact from a sensor that is a part of the article of apparel, or a sensor that is separate from it.

Claim (Index 16):
The athletic equipment system of  claim 15 ,\n wherein the article of apparel includes a plurality of dynamic padding systems; each dynamic padding system is located on a separate area of the article of apparel; each of the plurality of dynamic padding systems respectively includes a plurality of padding elements fixedly mounted on a based layer; a filament surrounding two of more of the respective padding elements, a spool having a portion of the respective filament wound around the spool, each spool being configured to receive an input originating from the sensor; wherein each respective spool is configured to reversibly change each respective filament from a first configuration to a second configuration upon receiving the input originating from the sensor; wherein each of the two or more padding elements which are surrounded by each respective filament have a first distance between them when each filament is in the first configuration, and have a second distance between them when each filament is in the second configuration, where the second distance is less than the first distance; and wherein the sensor is configured to transmit a signal to a specific dynamic padding system of the plurality of dynamic padding systems, based on the location of an impact between the user wearing the article of apparel and the target.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08621
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14258613', '13848891', '12566025', '12240408', '13111461']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6681528220321169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.54404809812005
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6557423496409103
- Mean Citation Score: 221.418432
- Max Citation Score: 424.8946
- Similarity Product: 325.1922396356702

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

Dataset: test