PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["602", "036000"]

Abstract:
A sling of a portable traction device cradles a user's head and includes a pair of shock cords attached at opposite ends of the sling. The ends of the shock cords opposite shock cords are anchored is anchored to a structure, such as a closed door at the hinged side of the door, between the door and door frame, using an anchor, at a height, to generate a tension vector at an acute angle relative to the floor. The tension applies cervical traction.

Claim (Index 1):
A portable traction device for providing cervical traction, the portable traction device comprising:\n a sling assembly, comprising:\n a sling comprising flexible material and having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a superior edge, and an inferior edge, the sling being elongated and sized to cradle and engage an occipital bone portion of a user's head via at least a frictional portion of the sling disposed between the superior edge and the inferior edge of the sling when the first side extends to a first side of the user's head and the second side extends to a second side of the user's head; \n a base cushion attached to the sling between the superior edge and the inferior edge and approximately centered between the first and second sides of the sling; \n a first side cushion disposed between the base cushion and the first side of the sling; \n a second side cushion disposed between the base cushion and the second side of the sling; and \n a pair of side attachments comprising a first side attachment extending from the first side of the sling and a second side attachment extending from the second side of the sling; \n flexible elastic tethers operable to selectively attach to the pair of side attachments via first ends of the flexible elastic tethers; and an anchor operable to selectively attach to the sling and to an anchoring object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84
- Patent Class: 602.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14159305', '14979460', '12711195', '15706401', '14388102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5600951750064249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494069944082774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5534926519140599
- Mean Citation Score: 173.86472
- Max Citation Score: 179.87454
- Similarity Product: 123.13712386340976

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