PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["362", "366000"]

Abstract:
A recessed housing assembly includes a pan, a can, a junction box, and hanger bars. The telescoping hanger bar includes mounting brackets each including an ear defining a plane, and each ear includes a nail holder, a bendable flange, and a bendable return. Each ear plane contains the nail holder adjacent to the bendable flange partially separated by a score line. The bendable flange and bendable return allow the hanger bar to be configured by the user for attachment to a T-bar grid, steel studs, furring strips, engineered joists, or standard wooden joists commonly found in building construction.

Claim (Index 1):
A recessed housing assembly for mounting a recessed lighting fixture, comprising:\n a flat plan pan having an opening therethrough; a can with an opening mounted to the pan so the can opening is in communication with the pan opening; a junction box mounted to the pan, wherein an electrical conduit extends from the junction box to the can; a hanger bar attached along an edge of the pan, the hanger bar including: an elongated first bar having a channel; an elongated second bar disposed within the channel, wherein the second bar moves within the channel for a telescoping action; a first bracket disposed at an end of the first bar, the first bracket including a polygonal first ear defining a first plane; a second bracket disposed at an end of the second bar, the second bracket including a polygonal second ear defining a second plane; the first and second ear planes disposed at a right angle relative to the first and second bars, respectively, and wherein each ear includes a nail holder with a hole, a bendable flange adjacent to the nail holder with the nail holder and bendable flange being coplanar, and a bendable return disposed underneath the nail holder and extending away from the respective ear plane; wherein the bendable flange includes an unbent position and a bent position with the two positions separated by up to about 360 degrees, and the bendable flange is bendable independent from the nail holder; and wherein the bendable return can be bent to be coplanar within the respective ear plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77778
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796849', '12617473', '12045604', '11296901', '12046019']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8822893769310454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.576149201567189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8516753593946598
- Mean Citation Score: 348.882226
- Max Citation Score: 513.1002
- Similarity Product: 431.844151482904

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

Dataset: test