PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985401
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["224", "521000"]

Abstract:
Channel shaped receiver with side walls formed with through bores.

Claim (Index 11):
A coupler apparatus to be mounted to a rearwardly opening horizontal tubular trailer hitch formed with a tunnel having oppositely disposed vertical hitch side walls formed with hitch bores and comprising:\n an elongated upstanding stem formed with a predetermined rectangular, transverse cross section having opposite lateral sides; a receiver having forward and rearward extremities and constructed in the form of a receiver channel having channel side walls and configured to be selectively received over the upstanding standing stem with the channel side walls in complimentary, close fit relationship with the opposite lateral side walls, the receiver also constructed for receipt of the forward extremity in the tunnel to be shifted to a forward-locking position; the channel side walls formed with receiver bores to be, when the hitch is in the forward locking position, aligned with the hitch bores; locking buttons to when the hitch and receiver bores are aligned, project through the hitch and receiver bores to block horizontal shifting of the receiver relative to the hitch; and elongated leaf springs positioned on the inside surfaces of the channel side walls and having fixed and free extremities, the fixed ends affixed to the channel side walls and the free extremities mounting the respective buttons, the free extremities and being constructed for carrying the respective buttons through respective paths from release positions disengaged from the respective hitch bores and locking positions projected through the respective hitch and receiver bores.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.1
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13080122', '11289788', '10779398', '14738895', '11358424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8217209373066849
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4476835410276794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7843171976787844
- Mean Citation Score: 121.585527
- Max Citation Score: 131.143
- Similarity Product: 99.4709466984272

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

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