PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["446", "385000"]

Abstract:
A multi-appendage device for holding, suspending, or gripping an object. The device includes: a body, and a plurality of flexible appendages attached to and extending from the body. Each appendage in turn includes an elongate integral piece of molded material, and an elongate integral piece of material that is located within an interior of the elongate integral piece of molded material, and that is generally flexible and inelastic. In accordance with this aspect, each appendage is bendable into various different shapes and is generally inelastic so as to remain in a shape into which it is bent. Preferably, the device further includes an add-on component that attaches to the body to extend from a top of the body and serve as a handle. Alternatively or additionally, the add-on component may include a light, a storage compartment, or both.

Claim (Index 81):
A multi-appendage device for holding and gripping an object, comprising:\n (a) a body comprising a top portion, a bottom portion, and a side portion extending between the top portion and the bottom portion, the body further having a cross-sectional profile configured to be grasped by and fit within the palm of a person's hand with the top portion facing the palm; and (b) a plurality of flexible appendages attached to the side portion of the body, each appendage being bendable and remaining in a shape into which it is bent; (c) wherein each appendage is configured to extend away from the body the same maximum extent in an opposite direction to a direction in which the top portion faces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98718
- Patent Class: 446.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14625611', '11876598', '11876589', '12893442', '11933329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6334944456889217
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5493373557604457
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.625078736696074
- Mean Citation Score: 220.174854
- Max Citation Score: 402.90735
- Similarity Product: 358.0413832070232

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