PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["224", "321000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle article carrier is disclosed which has a first pair of support elements and a second pair of support elements secured to an outer body surface of a vehicle. A pair of cross bar assemblies may be secured in either stowed orientations, in which the cross bar assemblies are each secured to one of the first pair of support elements and one of the second pair of support elements, or an operative configuration in which one of the cross bar assemblies is secured to the first pair of support elements while the other is secured to the second pair of support elements. One of the cross bar assemblies may be pivotally attached at one end to one of the support elements enabling it to be swung between its stowed and operative positions. The other cross bar assembly may be fully removable from the support elements, and may be attached in two different locations on the second pair of support elements.

Claim (Index 12):
The system of  claim 11 , wherein the third and fourth support elements each include an additional slot orientation 90 degrees from the pair of spaced apart slots, the additional slots enabling one end of each of the first and second cross bars to be secured with a camming engagement in the stowed orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70968
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12639480', '15493805', '15839147', '14577504', '15049574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8750332758040615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5098613418747661
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.838516082411132
- Mean Citation Score: 295.47379399999994
- Max Citation Score: 319.92963
- Similarity Product: 221.329338829751

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

Dataset: test