PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16378416
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["403", "169000"]

Abstract:
A coupler system for connecting elongate, horizontally disposed rods to vertical supports includes a top-cap component for attaching to the top of a vertical support, and including a body with plural cavities formed therein, and at least one ball-cap component for attaching to an end of a rod, and including a ball region that is constructed to fit within one of the plural cavities of the top-cap component. The body may be formed with four of the plural cavities, with each of them having beveled edges. The ball-cap components may include a ball region, a neck region, and an angled region located adjacent the neck region and away from the ball region. The top-cap and ball-cap components may include insertion regions with opposing sets of ribs. The coupler system may further include a cover component, and the body may be formed with a central hole for receiving a fastener that secures the cover component to the top-cap component.

Claim (Index 1):
A drape-and-rod coupler system for connecting elongate, horizontally disposed poles to vertical supports, comprising:\n a top-cap component for attaching to the top of one of the vertical supports, including a body with plural sidewalls and plural cavities, and wherein each cavity is formed by adjacent sidewalls with each cavity having an integral top region that is open, an integral bottom region, and with an elongate channel that terminates above the bottom region and has a width; at least one ball-cap curved-surface component for attaching to an end of one of the poles, and including a spherically-shaped ball curved-surface attachment region coupled to a rigid cylindrical neck so that rotation of the ball curved-surface attachment region results in angular movement of the neck, with the ball curved-surface attachment region having a diameter dimension larger than the neck that exceeds the width of the channel but also allows the ball to fits within one of the plural cavities of the top-cap component and retains the curved-surface attachment region within the cavity; wherein the at least one ball-cap curved-surface component and the top-cap component are constructed to allow the ball-cap curved-surface component to be received into a corresponding cavity, via the open, top region of the cavity, and to be held in the cavity by the combination of the ball diameter dimension of the curved-surface attachment region larger than the neck, the channel, width and the integral bottom region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31081
- Patent Class: 403.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14967138', '13154340', '15914961', '13602261', '15561409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7161663874127002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4307223253815258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6876219812095828
- Mean Citation Score: 139.20193600000002
- Max Citation Score: 204.85925
- Similarity Product: 203.55249998757245

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