PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "846000"]

Abstract:
A beam assembly includes a plastic composite beam and a flitch plate, where the flitch plate is secured to the plastic composite beam to improve the strength and rigidity of the beam. The assembly may include a plurality of rods extending through holes defined in the flitch plate and the beam to compress the flitch plate and the beam and to create a frictional engagement between the flitch plate and the beam. The flitch plate may have a height that is less than the height of the beam, such that upper and lower surfaces of the flitch plate are recessed from the upper and lower surfaces of the beam. The assembly may include two beams with a flitch plate disposed laterally between the beams. The flitch plate may include projections or protrusions that engage the beams to secure the flitch plate to the beams.

Claim (Index 9):
The assembly of  claim 1 , wherein the flitch plate includes a plurality of projections that pierce the composite beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12960143', '09377120', '15867227', '12315666', '12315754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8298162116562895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.490741849950113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7959087754856718
- Mean Citation Score: 151.45080000000004
- Max Citation Score: 173.9758
- Similarity Product: 109.41150221574308

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