PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["362", "366000"]

Abstract:
A recessed housing assembly includes a pan, a can, a junction box, and hanger bars. The telescoping hanger bar includes mounting brackets each including an ear defining a plane, and each ear includes a nail holder, a bendable flange, and a bendable return. Each ear plane contains the nail holder adjacent to the bendable flange partially separated by a score line. The bendable flange and bendable return allow the hanger bar to be configured by the user for attachment to a T-bar grid, steel studs, furring strips, engineered joists, or standard wooden joists commonly found in building construction.

Claim (Index 15):
A recessed housing assembly for mounting a recessed lighting fixture to a T-bar or furring channel, comprising:\n a pan having an opening therethrough, the pan further having at least one centering guide tab extending away from a first side of the pan and a center notch disposed at a second side of the pan; a can with an opening mounted to the pan so that the can opening is in communication with the pan opening; a junction box mounted to the pan having a plurality of side walls including a swivel-opening side wall, wherein an electrical conduit extends from the junction box to the can; and a hanger bar disposed along the second side of the pan, the hanger bar including telescoping first and second bars, the first and second bars each having an ear at a distal end, and wherein each ear includes an attachment nail and a bendable flange, the bendable flange including at least one of a fold line and a through hole defining a polygonal-shaped portion that is finger-deformable into a final shape for attachment to the T-bar or furring channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77778
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796849', '12617473', '12045604', '11296901', '12046019']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.88456447876501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5630720215344882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8524152330419579
- Mean Citation Score: 348.882226
- Max Citation Score: 513.1002
- Similarity Product: 369.4592247722268

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