PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16298938
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["428", "033000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for protection of an elongated structural support from impact, the apparatus includes an elongated impact protection component in the form of a unitary part having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a plurality of orthogonally-oriented projections spaced along a length of the elongated impact protection component. The projections of the elongated impact protection component include integrally formed connectors for interlocking connection to other same type impact protection components.

Claim (Index 32):
A column protection system, comprising:\n a plurality of protection components that fit adjacent to each other in installed positions on a column, wherein each of the protection components comprises:\n a body having a length extending between opposing end portions, wherein the body comprises a first side portion, a second side portion, an inner portion that receives a portion of the column, and an outer portion; \n a first plurality of projections extending from the first side portion along the length of the body; and \n a second plurality of projections extending from the second side portion along the length of the body, \n wherein the projections of the first side portion of each protection component engage the projections of the second side portion of each adjacent protection component, and \n wherein the first plurality of projections of the first side portion of the component adjustably engage the second plurality of projections of the second side portion of other same type components along a length of the first and second plurality of projections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15547575', '15006574', '10587779', '10540083', '11804711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8827662406335741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5277871057341366
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8472683271436304
- Mean Citation Score: 184.903256
- Max Citation Score: 356.41815
- Similarity Product: 270.66390422465804

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

Dataset: test