PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "409000"]

Abstract:
A sporting implement, such as a blade for a hockey stick, may include an outer layer, a core, and a recovery gel positioned between the core and the outer layer. The recovery gel can form a film, and the recovery gel can be compressible, shape recoverable, and pressurized to a predetermined pressure. The recovery gel can be configured to provide an integrated agent for filling cracks that appear during use of the blade. The recovery gel can be configured to absorb energy impacts between the outer layer and the core. When a crack appears, the predetermined pressure can be relieved inside the crack and fills a cavity formed by the crack to provide cohesion between the outer layer and the core to recreate a new material in the place of the crack. The recovery gel can be configured to help prevent cracks from propagating and actively heals potential damages by reducing stiffness loss caused by cracks.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of actively healing a blade for a hockey stick comprising:\n forming an outer layer; forming a core; placing a recovery gel between the core and the outer layer, the recovery gel forming a film; configuring the recovery gel to be compressible, and shape recoverable; and pressurizing the recovery gel to a predetermined pressure to provide an integrated agent for filling cracks that appear during use of the blade.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20779
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14716180', '12886147', '14209324', '13661968', '11755126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6050731004313799
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4756757446556894
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5921333648538109
- Mean Citation Score: 143.369512
- Max Citation Score: 146.91356000000005
- Similarity Product: 98.0583066080809

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

Dataset: test