PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16444940
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["404", "107000"]

Abstract:
A joint form is positioned in a damaged expansion joint to allow both sides of the joint to be repaired at the same time. The joint form remains as a permanent part of the repair, which avoids the time consuming conventional process of removing temporary forms, cleaning the repaired surfaces, and inserting an elastomeric seal into the expansion joint. Type-0 joint forms include a block-seal laminate including a foam block layer (e.g., closed-cell polyethylene) laminated to an upper elastomeric seal layer (e.g., closed-cell neoprene) without a stiffener board. Type-1 joint forms include a block-seal laminate with a stiffener board (e.g., fiberglass reinforced plastic or FRP) adhered to one side of the block-seal laminate. Type-2 joint forms include a pair of block-seal laminate panels on either side of a central stiffener board bonded to one side laminated to an upper seal layer. Joint forms may also be utilized to seal undamaged expansion joints.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n forming a joint form blank prior to the repair event at a location away from a location of the road section having the concrete damage; at the time of the repair event and at the location of the road section having the concrete damage, trimming the joint form blank to correspond to the width of the expansion joint, the height of the expansion joint, and the length greater than the length of the desired repair.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97674
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10357850', '15545593', '11898821', '13691079', '14211694']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.659537037584434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4854068712713409
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6421240209531248
- Mean Citation Score: 180.823054
- Max Citation Score: 208.29308
- Similarity Product: 151.15672816681862

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

Dataset: test