PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["049", "506000"]

Abstract:
A lock and method of locking a lockable volume is described. The lock may be located on a door of a lockable volume, such as a locker configured to hold an item. The lock may comprise a post and a cam, the cam having an opening corresponding to the size and shape of the post. The cam is rotatable about an axis, wherein the rotation of the cam about the axis releasably secures the post within the opening, thereby locking the door to which the post is attached.

Claim (Index 1):
A lock mechanism comprising:\n a frame configured to support components of the lock mechanism; a piston comprising a housing and a shaft which is extendable from the housing such that a forward portion of the shaft travels along the longitudinal axis of the shaft outward from a retracted position near the housing to an extended position; a first linkage member rotatably connected at a first end portion to the forward portion of the shaft, the first linkage member having a depression in its upper surface; a second linkage member rotatably connected to the frame at a fixed position, the second linkage member rotatably connected at a first end portion to a second end portion of the first linkage member; a third linkage member rotatably connected at a first end portion to a second end portion of the second linkage member; a rotatable cam connected at its axis of rotation to the securing surface, the rotatable cam having a first arm extending outward from a first portion of the rotating cam, and having a second arm extending outward from a second portion of the rotating cam, the rotating cam additionally having a receiving portion defined therein, the receiving portion configured to receive and secure a part therein, wherein the rotatable cam is rotatably connected at a mid outer portion to a second end portion of the third linkage member; a first bumper located on the securing surface; and a second bumper located on the securing surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04255
- Patent Class: 49.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15675394', '10451928', '13152913', '14398788', '11675874']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7954699780116753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4608492160848658
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7620079018189944
- Mean Citation Score: 174.07452600000005
- Max Citation Score: 185.3377
- Similarity Product: 154.92514381793742

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

Dataset: test