PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16418817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["439", "357000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus (“utility”) for securing an electrical connection formed by a mating structure including prongs of a male assembly and receptacles of a female assembly are provided. The utility includes a clamping mechanism whereby the very forces that would otherwise tend to pull the connection apart serve to actuate the clamping mechanism, thereby securing the mated pair. The apparatus may be integrated into a standard receptacle, or retrofitted to work with existing devices. In one embodiment, the clamping mechanism acts solely on the ground prong of a standard plug assembly, so that it is unnecessary to consider electrical potentials applied to the clamped prong in relation to the design of the clamping mechanism. Further, the withdrawing movement of the prongs of a plug may cause elongate clamping surfaces of the clamping mechanism to frictionally engage opposing surfaces of the clamped prong.

Claim (Index 37):
The method as set forth in  claim 25 , wherein said apparatus is adapted to fit onto a standard receptacle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72527
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16266261', '12568444', '15914877', '13228331', '15332878']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8604702184740237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5516090382719808
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8295841004538195
- Mean Citation Score: 448.956874
- Max Citation Score: 489.09583
- Similarity Product: 306.9244239316326

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

Dataset: test