PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["124", "027000"]

Abstract:
A ball-launching device includes a housing, ball holder, elastomeric member, cocking member, latch, and trigger assembly. The housing has an opening at a first end defining an elongated cavity. The ball holder is disposed in the housing cavity and slidable in an axial direction from a first position proximate to the opening at the housing first end, to a second position. The elastomeric member is selectively arranged within the housing to bias the ball holder toward the first position. The cocking member includes a first portion disposed outside of the housing, being usable to move the ball holder into a cocked position, where the latch may oppose the bias of the elastomeric member and releasably secure the cocking member and the ball holder thereat. Actuating the trigger assembly releases the latch, permitting the elastomeric member to accelerate the ball holder towards the housing first end to launch the ball therefrom.

Claim (Index 4):
The ball-launching device according to  claim 3 , wherein said latch comprises:\n a plurality of ratchet teeth configured to protrude from said interior surface of said housing cavity, said plurality of ratchet teeth being successively positioned between said first end and said second end of said housing; and a pawl pivotally mounted to said cocking member, with a portion of said pawl configured to engage at least one of said plurality of ratchet teeth at said cocked position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15444750', '14562671', '14847212', '13558728', '12853463']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7223106436522189
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.590879242138056
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7091675035008026
- Mean Citation Score: 305.76215
- Max Citation Score: 542.08685
- Similarity Product: 478.01379765171714

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