PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["296", "180400"]

Abstract:
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for flexibly attaching a trailer skirt to a trailer. This can include attaching a trailer mounting bracket to a trailer and attaching a bi-modulus bending member to the trailer mounting bracket in a cantilevered configuration at a bracket end of the bi-modulus bending member. The bi-modulus bending member includes a bending element set configured to elastically buckle when a lateral force component exceeds a threshold force, and the bi-modulus bending member is configured to return to a straightened configuration after buckling and bending to a buckled configuration when the threshold force is removed.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , where the one or more elongate bending elements comprises a plurality of elongate bending elements arranged into a first subset and a second subset, each of the first subset and the second subset including one or more elongate bending elements of the plurality of elongate bending elements, the first subset being arranged opposite the second subset relative a central plane extending along a length and a width of the bi-modulus bending member, where each of the plurality of elongate bending elements are free to slide relative each other when the bi-modulus bending member articulates between buckled and unbuckled configurations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12245
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15764814', '15764807', '13078982', '12647004', '15257571']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8312225243280682
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5031136551180093
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7984116374070623
- Mean Citation Score: 246.7186
- Max Citation Score: 360.90198
- Similarity Product: 298.5195518705249

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