PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16012743
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["052", "426000"]

Abstract:
A structure-lining apparatus for lining one or more surfaces of a structure formed from curable material cast in a form. The apparatus comprises a plurality of panels. The panels are connected at their respective edges in an edge-to-edge connection to provide a structure-lining surface. A plurality of anchoring components project from the panels into the liquid material during fabrication of the structure. The anchoring components each comprise one or more anchoring features which are encased in the material as the material solidifies to thereby bond the anchoring components to the structure. The plurality of anchoring components comprises one or more connector-type anchoring components for connecting to corresponding connector-type anchoring components on adjacent edges of a corresponding edge-adjacent panel to connect the edge-adjacent panels in an edge-adjacent relationship. The apparatus comprises one or more breakaway components on at least one of the plurality of panels.

Claim (Index 37):
A method for lining one or more surfaces of a structure formed from material that is cast as a liquid and subsequently solidifies, the method comprising:\n providing a form in which to cast the material; providing first and second panels which each extend in substantially orthogonal transverse and longitudinal directions, the first panel comprising a first breakaway component adjacent to and spaced apart from a first transverse edge of the first panel by a first transverse length, a, and a second breakaway component adjacent to and spaced apart from the first breakaway component by a second transverse length, b, the second transverse length, b, different than the first transverse length, a; shortening a transverse dimension of the first panel by the first transverse length, a, by breaking the first breakaway component or a combination of the first and second breakaway components of the first panel away from the first panel and thereby breaking away the first transverse edge from the first panel and creating a new first transverse edge of the first panel; lockingly connecting the first panel to the second panel in an edge-to-edge connection at the new first transverse edge of the first panel and an edge-adjacent transverse edge of the second panel to provide a structure-lining surface; inserting the first and second panels into the form such that at least a portion of the structure-lining surface abuts against a corresponding portion of the form; introducing liquid material into the form; wherein lockingly connecting the first and second panels in the edge-to-edge connection comprises lockingly connecting a first connector component on the new first transverse edge of the first panel to a first complementary connector component on the edge-adjacent transverse edge of the second panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12594576', '14360571', '13963353', '14360600', '12742082']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8386636346618757
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926634989246687
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804063621088155
- Mean Citation Score: 247.10695
- Max Citation Score: 266.17487
- Similarity Product: 212.0894737176836

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

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