PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179068
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["473", "451000"]

Abstract:
A sports training device attached to the shaft of a swinging sports apparatus, such as a baseball bat. The device includes a drag chute disposed between two rigid members, a support rod disposed between the two rigid members along the longitudinal axis of the chute, and a plurality of coupling elements connected to the support rod. Each coupling element includes an annular opening for positioning of the sports apparatus therethrough. One coupling element has a stationary component that secures the device to the sports apparatus and a rotating component that rotates 360° around the sports apparatus. As such, the entirety of the device, with exception to this stationary component, can substantially freely rotate 360° around the sports apparatus. Resistance during a swing can be adjusted by sliding the coupling mechanisms along the support rod to expose more or less of the chute.

Claim (Index 20):
The rehabilitation apparatus of  claim 18 , further comprising a locking mechanism in communication with the distal coupling element and the support rod, the locking mechanism having a locked orientation and an unlocked orientation, in which in the locked orientation, the locking mechanism exerts pressure on the distal coupling element to secure the distal coupling element to the support rod, and in which in the unlocked orientation, the locking mechanism reduces pressure exerted on the distal coupling element, such that the distal coupling element can slidably translate with respect to the support rod.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02632
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15683311', '15235915', '15250213', '10466511', '12843829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6450023631287438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5426048388119736
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6347626106970667
- Mean Citation Score: 285.017874
- Max Citation Score: 437.3739
- Similarity Product: 261.09751634434457

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

Dataset: test