PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16159526
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["473", "329000"]

Abstract:
A golf club head including a face having a flat ball-striking surface and a body that forms a flexure. The golf club head has a feature formed in a sole of the golf club head that provides the flexure.

Claim (Index 15):
A golf club head, comprising:\n a face, wherein the face defines a forward ball-striking surface that is flat; a body coupled to the face, wherein the body forms a perimeter portion of the golf club head and a rear wall spaced from the face, wherein the combined face and body define a sole, wherein the sole includes an aperture; a hosel extending away from the face and body and providing an attachment structure for a golf club shaft; and a flexure forming a portion of the perimeter of the aperture, wherein the flexure is a wall that is spaced from a rear surface of the face by a thin sole portion, wherein a height of the flexure measured in a vertical direction relative to a ground plane when the golf club head is resting on the sole surface in an address position is in a range of about 2.0 mm to about 4.0 mm, wherein a thickness of the thin sole portion measured in a vertical direction relative to the ground plane when the golf club head is resting on the sole surface in the address position is in a range of about 1.0 mm to about 3.0 mm, wherein the height of the flexure is greater than the thickness of the thin sole portion, wherein the height of the flexure is greater than the thickness of the thin sole portion, wherein the aperture is elongate and generally extends in a heel to toe direction in the sole of the golf club head, and wherein the flexure is formed as a separate component and coupled to the body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57692
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15260191', '15167564', '15826407', '14832587', '15828139']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7472019782713515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.585456964207561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7310274768649725
- Mean Citation Score: 503.91212800000005
- Max Citation Score: 513.4042400000002
- Similarity Product: 462.1825061143352

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

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