PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["296", "100030"]

Abstract:
A cover for a truck bed that can be horizontally traversed between expanded and collapsed positions is shown. Since the cover is horizontally traversed, the person manipulating the cover need not lift the cover vertically in order to reconfigure the cover between the expanded and collapsed positions. Women and elderly people who are generally not as strong as men can manipulate the cover.

Claim (Index 55):
A cover for a bed of a truck, the cover comprising:\n a rigid member slidably connected to first and second sidewalls of the bed and being selectively transitional between collapsed and expanded positions, the rigid member moving closer to a cab of the truck as the rigid member transitions from the expanded position toward the collapsed position; a flexible portion fabricated from a flexible sheet and having a first end portion, a second end portion, a first lateral portion and a second lateral portion, the first end portion fixedly connectable to the cab, the second end portion attached to the rigid member, the first and second lateral portions disposed adjacent to the first and second sidewalls; a plurality of support structures attached to the rigid member and extending toward the cab about a periphery of the cab and the rigid member; wherein the flexible portion is supported on the plurality of support structures between the cab and the rigid member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59524
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15686009', '15340157', '15047519', '15177268', '15593657']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.840968855828647
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5535886102355119
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8122308312693335
- Mean Citation Score: 461.1795599999999
- Max Citation Score: 467.43518
- Similarity Product: 454.1262790164805

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