PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["224", "321000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle article carrier is disclosed which has a first pair of support elements and a second pair of support elements secured to an outer body surface of a vehicle. A pair of cross bar assemblies may be secured in either stowed orientations, in which the cross bar assemblies are each secured to one of the first pair of support elements and one of the second pair of support elements, or an operative configuration in which one of the cross bar assemblies is secured to the first pair of support elements while the other is secured to the second pair of support elements. One of the cross bar assemblies may be pivotally attached at one end to one of the support elements enabling it to be swung between its stowed and operative positions. The other cross bar assembly may be fully removable from the support elements, and may be attached in two different locations on the second pair of support elements.

Claim (Index 18):
The system of  claim 17 , wherein the latching assembly includes:\n a user graspable and rotatable actuating element; a locking element operatively coupled to the actuating element; and the locking element being configured to engage with a different slots in one of the third and fourth support elements to enable selective spacing of the second cross bar when the second cross bar is in the operative orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70968
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12639480', '15493805', '15839147', '14577504', '15049574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8752526716399498
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5036853093128718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8380959354072419
- Mean Citation Score: 295.47379399999994
- Max Citation Score: 319.92963
- Similarity Product: 270.2657376709431

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test