PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179068
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["473", "451000"]

Abstract:
A sports training device attached to the shaft of a swinging sports apparatus, such as a baseball bat. The device includes a drag chute disposed between two rigid members, a support rod disposed between the two rigid members along the longitudinal axis of the chute, and a plurality of coupling elements connected to the support rod. Each coupling element includes an annular opening for positioning of the sports apparatus therethrough. One coupling element has a stationary component that secures the device to the sports apparatus and a rotating component that rotates 360° around the sports apparatus. As such, the entirety of the device, with exception to this stationary component, can substantially freely rotate 360° around the sports apparatus. Resistance during a swing can be adjusted by sliding the coupling mechanisms along the support rod to expose more or less of the chute.

Claim (Index 1):
A rehabilitation apparatus comprising:\n a proximal end opposite a distal end, with a proximal rigid member disposed at the proximal end, and a distal rigid member disposed at the distal end; a drag chute spanning from the proximal end to the distal end, the drag chute being coupled to each of the proximal rigid member and the distal rigid member; a support rod secured to each of the proximal rigid member and the distal rigid member, the support rod spanning along a longitudinal axis of the drag chute from the proximal end to the distal end of the rehabilitation apparatus; a proximal coupling element coupled to the support rod and disposed adjacent to the proximal rigid member, the proximal coupling element defining an aperture through which a user's limb can be inserted; and a distal coupling element coupled to the support rod and disposed between the proximal coupling element and the distal end of the rehabilitation apparatus, the distal coupling element including an outer housing defining an aperture, and a handle coupled to and disposed interior of the outer housing, the handle at least partially extending from the outer housing toward the aperture, such that the user's limb can grasp the handle to swing the rehabilitation apparatus, and such that the drag chute provides resistance when the rehabilitation apparatus travels through air during a rehabilitation exercise.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02632
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15683311', '15235915', '15250213', '10466511', '12843829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6419670562855117
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489398352212219
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6326643341790826
- Mean Citation Score: 285.017874
- Max Citation Score: 437.3739
- Similarity Product: 316.039151542908

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

Dataset: test