PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950714
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["138", "106000"]

Abstract:
A stop ball for a tube for fluid or energy is provided. The stop ball comprises a singular hollow body. The hollow body comprises and is integral with a first opening for the tube and an attachment means for attaching the stop ball to the tube, the attachment means comprising a second opening for the tube. A method for attaching a stop ball according to any one of the preceding embodiments to a tube for fluid or energy is provided. The method comprising inserting the tube through all three openings; pulling the attachment means at least partly out of the hollow body; and clamping the attachment means onto the tube.

Claim (Index 13):
The method according to  claim 12 , the method comprising using at least one of the following group consisting of a cable tie, hose clamp, elastic means, mechanical clamp, and tie for clamping the attachment means onto the tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31373
- Patent Class: 138.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13903641', '10478201', '15545098', '12847287', '12661762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6997881228598756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813451139622473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6779438219701127
- Mean Citation Score: 139.992176
- Max Citation Score: 149.93991
- Similarity Product: 78.67394234208942

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

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