PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "417000"]

Abstract:
The baseball/softball hitting training device includes a base, a frame body, and a ball suspension system. The ball suspension system is supported by the frame body. The frame body includes a vertical stem portion and an offset portion. An upwardly-projecting arm of the vertical stem and a downwardly-projecting arm of the offset portion define a vertical axis between them. The ball suspension system is supported between the upwardly-projecting arm and downwardly-projecting arm, with the ball held vertically intermedially via a tether in alignment with the vertical axis and positioned to allow the player to practice hitting. Height-adjustment mechanisms are also disclosed. The tethered-ball training device can optionally be converted to a tee-ball training device.

Claim (Index 1):
A ball hitting training device comprising:\n a base comprising an upwardly-extending frame receiving portion; a frame comprising a vertical stem and an offset portion; said vertical stem comprising an upwardly-projecting arm and a support section attachable to said frame receiving portion; said offset portion having an offset lower portion attached to an upper portion of said vertical stem, an offset midsection attached to said offset lower portion, an offset upper section attached to said offset midsection, and a downwardly-projecting arm attached to said offset upper section and vertically aligned with said upwardly-projecting arm; and a ball suspension portion comprising a resilient tether supported at least by said downwardly-projecting arm and comprising a ball suspended intermedially on said tether.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13793
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13068765', '12753246', '11126857', '12026878', '12964632']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.650585322969139
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5051062689530681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.636037417567532
- Mean Citation Score: 262.021222
- Max Citation Score: 289.60217
- Similarity Product: 213.95293610802472

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