PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["172", "375000"]

Abstract:
Multi-use tools are described. According to one aspect of the invention, a tool includes a chevron-shaped body, and a coupling mechanism configured to couple a handle to the chevron-shaped body. According to another aspect of the invention, a tool including a chevron-shaped body comprising a first external edge, a second external edge, a first internal edge, and a second internal edge. The tool also includes a handle, a coupling mechanism demountably coupling the handle to the chevron-shaped body and a void formed by the first internal edge, the second internal edge, and the coupling mechanism. An apex of the chevron-shaped body points away from the handle.

Claim (Index 1):
A long handled gardening tool comprising:\n a tubular long handle configured to be operated by a user in the standing position upon a surface about the user's feet; a single piece tool head coupled across a terminal end of the long handle by a pair of coupling members, each coupling member sandwiching the terminal end of the long handle between opposing terminal members of the single piece tool head, the stamped single piece tool head comprising:\n concave terminal members complimenting the tubular perimeter of the terminal end of the tubular long handle; \n each individual terminal member extending other than normal to form lateral members; \n each lateral member extending other than normal and substantially parallel with the terminal members to form opposing strips; \n each of the opposing strips bent and merged to define sides of a chevron; \n the chevron, strips, and lateral members defining an opening within the tool head; \n the chevron being angled from the strips and defining a base, the base supporting the tool upon the substrate during tool operation; \n the chevron further defining individual leading and trailing edges extending to an apex of the chevron; and \n each of the individual leading and trailing edges being beveled, and a plurality of recesses within each of the individual leading and trailing edges opposing one another across the chevron.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7907
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13239154', '15701799', '12930656', '13591773', '13527507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6566670175712166
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5018155665963094
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6411818724737259
- Mean Citation Score: 173.20466299999995
- Max Citation Score: 283.90787
- Similarity Product: 232.8413418258065

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