PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868109
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["206", "580000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method to secure a bolt cutter, wire cutter, cable cutter or other type of pivot handled tool with two protruding tabs whose apertures align with each other as the handles of the pivot handled tool enter a closed position. A shackle of a padlock may be inserted through the aligned apertures to lock the handles in the closed position.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus that secures a pivot handled tool, comprising:\n a pivot handled tool having two handles that pivot between a spread apart relation and a neighboring relation, each of the handles having a respective apertured tab, each of the respective tabs having an associated aperture, the associated apertures being out of alignment with each other as the two handles are pivoted into the spread apart relation and being in alignment with each other as the two handles are pivoted into the neighboring relation after leaving the spread apart relation; and wherein each of the associated apertures are configured to accommodate insertion of a shackle of a padlock through the associated apertures to simultaneously secure the apertured tabs to each other and thereby secure the two handles in the neighboring relation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15498046', '11605979', '13325033', '12653806', '12559097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7664387828660405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5310808597842885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7429029905578654
- Mean Citation Score: 195.99179
- Max Citation Score: 376.8539
- Similarity Product: 311.83976833723784

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