PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957183
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["623", "036000"]

Abstract:
A prosthetic device includes first and second regions divided by a longitudinal line extending between the first and second ends of the device. The device has a continuously knit elasticized fabric layer including a first set of yarns located about a circumference of the device through the first and second regions. The fabric layer has different knit structures in the first and second regions to obtain different elasticity while sharing the first set of yarns so that the first region has a first elasticity, and the second region has a second elasticity greater than the elasticity of the first region. An elastomeric layer secures an interior surface of the fabric layer.

Claim (Index 15):
A suspension liner having first and second regions generally arranged from first and second ends of the device and divided by a longitudinal line forming an anterior-posterior plane extending between the first and second ends, the liner comprising:\n a continuously knit elasticized fabric layer having a tubular shape dividing the first and second regions, including a first set of yarns located about a circumference of the liner through the first and second regions, the fabric layer in the first region having a first elasticity, and the fabric layer in the second region having a second elasticity greater than the elasticity in the first region, the fabric layer extending over an entirety of an outer surface of the prosthetic device; an elastomeric layer secured to an interior surface of the fabric layer and defines an entirety of an inner surface of the prosthetic device; wherein the liner is arranged to bend along the longitudinal line, with the liner having greater curvature along the second region compared to a curvature of the first region, such that the liner defines an arcuate profile along the longitudinal line according to differences in elasticity among the first and second regions in the longitudinal direction in a relaxed and unstretched state; wherein the continuously knit elasticized fabric layer comprises a plurality of circumferential first rows alternating with a plurality of circumferential second rows, the circumferential first and second rows comprising a first section corresponding to the first region and a second section corresponding to the second region, the first section of the circumferential first rows comprising only knitted loop stitches, the second section of the circumferential first rows comprising a repeating pattern of one knitted loop stitch and one tuck stitch, the circumferential second rows comprising only knitted loop stitches in both the first and second sections of the circumferential second rows.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18868
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14461744', '13159549', '12832653', '12454299', '12070260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7617230714827508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5882698231821584
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7443777466526915
- Mean Citation Score: 294.794254
- Max Citation Score: 521.2324
- Similarity Product: 510.8417501937389

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