PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["114", "284000"]

Abstract:
An adjustable surf wake system enhances a wake formed by a watercraft travelling through water. The system may include a flap for deflecting water traveling past the stern of the watercraft, and/or a positioner operably connected to the flap for positioning the flap relative to a longitudinal axis of the watercraft between a neutral position and an outward position. Positioning a port flap in its extended position enhances a starboard surf wake, and positioning the starboard flap in its extended position enhances a port surf wake. A wake modifying system for modifying a wake produced by a watercraft traveling through water may include a rudder pivotally mounted to the watercraft for steering the watercraft, a fin pivotally mounted to the watercraft substantially along a centerline of the watercraft and forward the rudder, wherein the fin pivots about an upright axis to modify the wake produced by the watercraft traveling through the water, an actuator mounted within the watercraft and operably coupled to the fin for pivoting the fin relative to the centerline, and a controller mounted on the watercraft allowing an operator to control the actuator and selectively pivot the fin to a desired angle θd relative to the centerline.

Claim (Index 21):
A water-sports boat configured to facilitate user-controlled selection of which side of a wake of the water-sports boat to enhance for wake surfing, the water-sports boat comprising:\n a hull having a transom and a longitudinal axis, the hull configured to at least contribute to the production of a wake having diverging port-side and starboard-side waves when the hull moves through water; a ballast system configured to add ballast; a swim platform extending rearward from the transom; a propulsion system comprising a propeller; a starboard-side surf selector; a port-side surf selector; a port-side deflector that is port of the longitudinal axis and configured to move between a neutral position and a deployed position, wherein at least a majority of the port-side deflector is closer to the swim platform in the neutral position than in the deployed position; a port-side actuator operably configured to move said port-side deflector between said neutral and said deployed positions; a starboard-side deflector that is starboard of the longitudinal axis and configured to move between a neutral position and a deployed position, wherein at least a majority of the starboard-side deflector is closer to the swim platform in the neutral position than in the deployed position; a starboard-side actuator operably configured to move said starboard-side deflector between said neutral and said deployed positions; wherein the water-sports boat has:\n a port-side surf configuration where the port-side deflector is positioned at its neutral position and the starboard-side deflector is positioned at its deployed position, and wherein the water-sports boat in the port-side surf configuration is configured to enhance port-side wake surfing when the hull moves through water by at least causing the port-side wave to be smoother than the starboard-side wave; \n a starboard-side surf configuration where the starboard-side deflector is positioned at its neutral position and the port-side deflector is positioned at its deployed position, wherein the water-sports boat in the starboard-side surf configuration is configured to enhance starboard-side wake surfing when the hull moves through water by at least causing the starboard-side wave to be smoother than the port-side wave; and \n wherein the water-sports boat is configured to transition to the starboard-side surf configuration upon actuation of the starboard-side surf selector and configured to transition to the port-side surf configuration upon actuation of the port-side surf selector, the water-sports boat configured to make said transitions even when the hull is traveling through water at predetermined speeds and the water-sports boat was in one of the starboard-side or port-side configurations upon appropriate actuation of an opposite one of the surf selectors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 92.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69231
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15133157', '14082086', '14075978', '15893517', '15210776']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8352236443933145
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6639818001441389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.818099459968397
- Mean Citation Score: 634.910012
- Max Citation Score: 698.5467
- Similarity Product: 636.8373035906195

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

Dataset: test