PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["124", "027000"]

Abstract:
A ball-launching device includes a housing, ball holder, elastomeric member, cocking member, latch, and trigger assembly. The housing has an opening at a first end defining an elongated cavity. The ball holder is disposed in the housing cavity and slidable in an axial direction from a first position proximate to the opening at the housing first end, to a second position. The elastomeric member is selectively arranged within the housing to bias the ball holder toward the first position. The cocking member includes a first portion disposed outside of the housing, being usable to move the ball holder into a cocked position, where the latch may oppose the bias of the elastomeric member and releasably secure the cocking member and the ball holder thereat. Actuating the trigger assembly releases the latch, permitting the elastomeric member to accelerate the ball holder towards the housing first end to launch the ball therefrom.

Claim (Index 1):
A ball-launching device comprising:\n a housing having a first end and a second end, said housing comprising: an opening at said first end defining an interior surface of a cavity; a ball holder with at least a portion thereof disposed in said housing cavity and being configured to slide in a direction away from a first position being proximate to said opening at said housing first end, to a second position in said cavity ; means for biasing said ball holder toward said first position; a cocking member configured to releasably engage with said ball holder, and with at least a portion thereof configured to be slidable within said housing cavity; and wherein said cocking member is configured to be actuated to oppose said biasing and move said cocking member toward said second end of said housing into a cocked position, for said ball holder, when engaged therewith, to move from said first position to a corresponding cocked position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 124.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15444750', '14562671', '14847212', '13558728', '12853463']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6993033423018641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5844522654519925
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.687818234616877
- Mean Citation Score: 305.76215
- Max Citation Score: 542.08685
- Similarity Product: 460.24749095895294

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

Dataset: test