PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "024000"]

Abstract:
A snow guard assembly heated within one or more snow guard tubes. Heating of the snow guard tube prevents excessive accumulation of snow and helps prevent snow build up and spill over above the top of the snow guard. The tubes can be length-wise separable to place and service the heating elements. The heating element can be standard heat tape or infrared LEDs. The snow guard tubes can optionally have a non-uniform cross-sectional thickness to direct the heat more efficiently in a desired orientation. The interior of the snow guard tubes can be selectively coated with infrared absorbing or reflective material to direct the heat in a desired orientation when infrared LEDs are used as a heat source. The snow guard can be attached to many types of roof surfaces including tile roofs, metal roofs with or without standing seams, and shingle roofs.

Claim (Index 2):
The snow guard assembly of  claim 4 ,\n wherein: the snow guard tube is hollow and length-wise separable into a first tube portion and a second tube portion; the first tube portion includes first length-wise edges; the second tube portion includes second length-wise edges; and the first length-wise edges and the second length-wise edges are sized and shaped to snap together and secure the first tube portion and the second tube portion together.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14698905', '10887206', '10360324', '11068182', '10665768']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8404090885727754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4988117938195776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8062493590974557
- Mean Citation Score: 251.047278
- Max Citation Score: 265.28558
- Similarity Product: 200.4859878301215

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

Dataset: test