PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["473", "458000"]

Abstract:
A baseball and softball training aid is worn to prevent a batter's lead arm from extending too far backward in rotation during swing windup, thus collapsing the “box” or “barrel” referred to in batting training that exists between the batter's lead arm and chest during at least an initial portion of a swing of a bat. The training aid has a vertical stop providing a surface that is aligned vertically along a chest of the batter so that the lead arm of the batter is prevented from traveling past the vertical stop by contacting the vertical stop when the batter winds up to strike a ball and a pair of braces rigidly coupled to the vertical stop and extending across the chest of the batter to transfer energy from the vertical stop to the chest of the batter when the lead arm of the batter contacts the vertical stop.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein the formed unit further includes a planar front face, a top edge portion that extends from the front face and curves rearward according to a profile of the formed unit and a bottom edge portion that curves rearward according to the profile of the formed unit, wherein the top edge portion extends to lie substantially parallel with the first wall portion of the first brace, and wherein the bottom edge portion extends to lie substantially parallel with the second wall portion of the second brace, and wherein the method further comprises attaching the formed unit to the first wall portion of the first brace along the top edge portion and attaching the formed unit to the second wall portion of the second brace along the bottom edge portion with a plurality of fasteners.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07895
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12050403', '13834872', '13174660', '15727827', '14121716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6210050214612186
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032481988721728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.609229339202314
- Mean Citation Score: 228.76145
- Max Citation Score: 239.74512
- Similarity Product: 169.28967064198494

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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