PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16270767
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["042", "055000"]

Abstract:
Projectile launchers have an elongated cylindrical body defining a projectile bore having a bore axis, the body having an open forward exit end, the body having a gas inlet facility at an opposed rear end, a movable latch element connected to the body and having a latch portion movable between a retention position in which the latch portion protrudes into the bore and a release position, and the latch element being biased to the retention position such that a projectile in the bore rearward of the latch is retained by the latch portion except until a gas pressure above a selected amount builds up behind the projectile to overcome the biasing of the latch and launch the projectile. The latch element may be clear of the bore when in the release position.

Claim (Index 1):
A launcher comprising:\n body defining a projectile bore having a bore axis; the body having an open forward exit end; the body having a gas inlet facility at an opposed rear end; a latch element connected to the body and having a latch portion movable between a retention position in which the latch portion protrudes into the bore and a release position; the latch element being biased to the retention position to retain a projectile in the bore when the projectile is applying a forward force on the latch less than a preselected amount, and to release the projectile when a forward force exceeds the preselected amount; and wherein the body defines a latch aperture located at an intermediate position on the body between the exit end and the rear end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0597
- Patent Class: 42.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15422419', '14367517', '15355984', '12939785', '12072350']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.789000244088252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5094743492788038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7610476546073072
- Mean Citation Score: 214.03657
- Max Citation Score: 342.0588
- Similarity Product: 316.7745639302016

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