PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "422000"]

Abstract:
The application is directed to an apparatus for developing the act of fielding ground balls in the game of baseball. The application is also directed to an apparatus for developing the act of throwing a baseball following fielding of a ground ball. The apparatus is operationally configured to locate the glove hand and/or feet of a user of the apparatus in one or more fielding positions and the feet in one or more throwing positions. The apparatus may be used to train individual infielders and outfielders for fielding ground balls and throwing a baseball according to their respective player positions and/or according to various game scenarios or game situations.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of training baseball ground ball fielding and baseball throwing following fielding of the baseball including:\n providing a size adjustable apparatus for setting on a training surface, the apparatus having a forward portion establishing a glove hand fielding position for an individual and a rearward portion for establishing a desired right foot fielding position and left foot fielding position of the individual, the distance of the forward portion to the rearward portion being determined according to the size of the individual using the apparatus; locating the apparatus in front of an individual on the training surface, the rearward portion being located nearest the individual; with knowledge of the desired position to place the glove hand, right foot and left foot in relation to the configuration of the apparatus for a desired fielding position, an individual approaching the apparatus until the glove hand, right foot and left foot are set to the desired fielding position about the apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13761607', '15418471', '12380270', '10760980', '11316480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6637633941364397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4981945041812283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6472065051409186
- Mean Citation Score: 221.539254
- Max Citation Score: 229.15788
- Similarity Product: 151.5318217204571

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

Dataset: test