PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["224", "521000"]

Abstract:
A receiver to be received in a tubular hitch with leaf springs mounted cantileverly to the inside thereof to bias locking buttons out through locking bores to releasably lock to the hitch.

Claim (Index 10):
A carrier rack to be mounted to a hitch formed with a rectangular rearwardly opening hitch tunnel including a pair of oppositely disposed vertical planer hitch side walls having interior surfaces, formed with respective hitch bores, and comprising:\n an elongated rectangular receiver to be inserted in the hitch tunnel to a hitch position and including a channel configured with front and rear extremities, the front extremity being formed for receipt in the tunnel to leave the rear extremity projecting cantileverly thereform; an elongated stem pivotally connected on one end to the rear extremity to pivot about a pivot axis and configured to be partially nested in the channel of the receiver as the receiver is pivoted to a retracted position, coextensive with the stem; the receiver including opposite planer side walls having through receiver bores configured to be, when the receiver is in the hitch position, align with the hitch bores; leaf springs mounted to the interior surfaces of the respective opposite wails, and configured with free ends biased laterally outwardly to locking positions; and locking buttons on the respective free ends configured to be, when the hitch and receiver bores are aligned and the leaf springs in the locking positions, project outwardly through the respective receiver and hitch bores.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.26923
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10950144', '12109749', '11221556', '12802542', '11289788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8202467751292789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4327424078958599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.781496338405937
- Mean Citation Score: 122.2994268
- Max Citation Score: 123.41747
- Similarity Product: 101.84599678236188

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

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