PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16425504
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["273", "400000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for playing a game includes a plurality of channels, each of the plurality of channels configured to hold and display a column of spherical game-pieces, each of the plurality of channels having an upper end and a lower end, each upper end configured to individually receive at least one of the spherical game-pieces, each lower end configured to support a respective column of spherical game-pieces by preventing passage of a bottom game-piece from a respective channel; a funnel affixed to the plurality of channels and configured to receive a thrown spherical game-piece and to direct the thrown spherical game-piece into the upper end of one of the plurality of channels; and a base stand operably connected to the plurality of channels and configured to rest upon a horizontal surface and to retain the plurality of channels at an acute angle relative to the horizontal surface.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of channels is aligned substantially in a plane; and\n wherein the funnel includes a forward ramp, a rear ramp, and two sidewalls, the forward ramp and the rear ramp extending upward from the upper ends of plurality of channels and away from each other relative to the plane of the plurality of channels, the two sidewalls extending between the forward ramp and the rear ramp, with one of the two sidewalls extending upward from the upper end of a first of the plurality of channels aligned in the plane, and the other of the two sidewalls extending upward from the upper end of a last of the plurality of channels aligned in the plane, the forward ramp, the rear ramp, and the two sidewalls together configured to circumscribe the upper ends of plurality of channels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61017
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14322413', '15073814', '15262839', '12254694', '12323758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5250905319822317
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5170329893920651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.524284777723215
- Mean Citation Score: 180.584228
- Max Citation Score: 196.53285
- Similarity Product: 106.04819160473944

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

Dataset: test