PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["016", "016000"]

Abstract:
A device for coupling at least two floor-mats together on a floor-surface is disclosed herein. The device includes a plate, a first mat fastener, and a second mat fastener. The device is useful for coupling at least two floor-mats together on a floor surface. In a preferred embodiment, the first mat fastener and the second mat fastener may be screws and the screws may be configured to penetrate a thickness of the at least two-floor mats to couple the at least two-floor mats together.

Claim (Index 16):
A device for coupling at least two floor-mats together on a floor-surface, the at least two floor-mats each including a top-surface and a bottom-surface relative the floor-surface, and further including a thickness defined by the top-surface and the bottom-surface, the device comprising:\n a plate including a flat top-surface and a flat bottom-surface relative the floor-surface, the bottom-surface being configured to rest upon the floor-surface, and the top-surface being configured to rest below each bottom-surface of the at least two floor-mats; a first mat fastener configured to fasten to the plate and to a first mat of the at least two floor mats; and a second mat fastener configured to fasten to the plate and to a second mat of the at least two floor mats; and wherein the first mat fastener and the second mat fastener are screws, each including a screw-head, a screw-shank, and a screw-point, respectively, each screw-point configured to penetrate the bottom-surface of one of the at least two floor-mats, each screw coupleable to an opposing end of the plate via its screw-head, and oriented vertically relative the floor-surface; wherein each screw is sized and dimensioned to extend through at least half the thickness one of the at least two floor-mats without penetrating the top-surface of the one of the at least two floor-mats while in use; wherein the bottom-surface of the plate includes at least two countersink holes at the opposing ends; wherein the at least two screws are countersunk screws configured to be fixedly attached to the top-surface of the plate via each screw-head; wherein the at least two screws include four screws; wherein the plate has four corners, and each of the four screws is located at one of the four corners; wherein the at least two-floor mats include four floor-mats; wherein the plate is square-shaped; wherein the plate is 1/16 inches in plate thickness, 4 inches in length on each plate side; wherein the plate is made from a metal; wherein the first mat fastener and the second mat fastener are each made from a stainless steel; and wherein the first mat fastener and the second mat fastener are fixed to the plate, extending in an upward direction, relative to the floor-surface when in use.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11628
- Patent Class: 16.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15661400', '14618890', '11061583', '14336035', '11705296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7065858056719396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4605648648997316
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6819837115947188
- Mean Citation Score: 159.50012999999996
- Max Citation Score: 165.94863999999995
- Similarity Product: 126.51946590412136

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

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