PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16219131
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["024", "712100"]

Abstract:
A device for use in securing two or more laces on an article of clothing includes (a) a piece of flexible and elastic material having shear-resistive properties and an initial disk-like shape and (b) a hole formed in the material. When the laces are inserted through the hole a first time, wrapped together around a portion of the piece of material, inserted together through the hole a second time, and pulled tightly in opposite directions, the material deforms to (1) assume a self-herniated shape in which the material grips the laces and folds upon itself and the laces toward the hole, and (2) retain the self-herniated shape and secure the laces in place after pulling forces are removed from the laces.

Claim (Index 5):
The device of  claim 4 , where the piece of material has width of approximately 30 millimeters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91549
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10603380', '11517934', '13640676', '13764250', '11212283']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7375835663242516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4656915928729904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7103943689791254
- Mean Citation Score: 129.44609599999998
- Max Citation Score: 138.14767
- Similarity Product: 74.38005516650618

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

Dataset: test