PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949154
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["024", "0160PB"]

Abstract:
A cinching device includes: a buckle including a frame defining an opening; an elongate flexible strap coupled to one portion of the frame and extending away from the frame to a freestanding distal tongue receivable by the opening of the frame, the strap including a first face carrying a plurality of loop-engageable discrete fastening elements and an opposing second face carrying a loop material; and a tab coupled to another portion of the frame, the tab including an exposed touch fastening face engageable with at least one of: the plurality of fastening elements of the first face of the strap or the loop material of the second face of the strap.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of securing a strap about one or more objects, the method comprising:\n grasping a cinching device comprising a rigid buckle, an elongated flexible strap coupled to and extending from one end of the buckle, and a tab extending from an opposite end of the buckle; wrapping the flexible strap around the one or more objects; inserting a distal tongue of the strap through an opening defined by the buckle; and advancing the strap in a forward direction through the opening to tighten the strap, thereby cinching the strap around the one or more objects, wherein the strap carries a first field of touch fastener elements exposed on an outer surface of the strap as wrapped about the one or more objects, and the tab carries a second field of touch fastener elements facing the outer surface of the strap and configured to engage the first field of touch fastener elements to resist loosening of the strap while permitting relative motion tightening the strap as the strap is cinched.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18519
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11679110', '13797240', '15297937', '14053789', '15840196']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7462071566023333
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4507045261155601
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7166568935536559
- Mean Citation Score: 209.994562
- Max Citation Score: 247.98555
- Similarity Product: 205.0861689853996

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

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