PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039502
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "312000"]

Abstract:
A golf club and/or shaft with improved weighting characteristic is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention discloses to a golf club and/or shaft wherein the improved weighting distribution stems from an increase in the mass of the golf club and/or shaft at a specific distance away from the butt end or proximal end of the golf club to help increase the feel and minimize the dispersion of the golf shot by fine tuning the pull and or draw tendencies of a golf shot.

Claim (Index 12):
A shaft for a golf club comprising:\n a butt end having a first shaft diameter, a tip end having a second shaft diameter, wherein said first shaft diameter is greater than said second shaft diameter, and a heavy weighted section, located at a distance of between exactly 10 and exactly 15 inches away from said butt end of said shaft, and wherein said heavy weighted section has a mass of greater than about 9 grams, wherein said heavy weighted section further comprises a dense layer, said dense layer is centrally located between an internal wall of said shaft and an external wall of said shaft, and wherein said dense layer is created using a dense powder

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15445511', '14864008', '14919585', '14248556', '14665329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6364463504918003
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5562001507562874
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.628421730518249
- Mean Citation Score: 342.314082
- Max Citation Score: 429.064
- Similarity Product: 349.788918747902

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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