PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221432
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["224", "241000"]

Abstract:
A tool pouch, tool bag, utility pouch, or similar, comprising one or more individual tool pouches, used by tradesmen in difficult and/or dangerous environments where it would be convenient and preferred for safety reasons for the tool pouches to remain closed or remain open without manual intervention. Tool pouches within a tool pouch are configured with bi-stable hinges in which an over-center cam-spring arrangement alternatively maintains either a fully-closed or a fully-open configuration until an intentional opening or closing action by a user. Individual tool pouches within a tool pouch may be opened or closed independently of the open or closed positions of other tool pouches.

Claim (Index 27):
A tool pouch assembly, comprising:\n a flexible tool pouch having first and second opposing sides; a bi-stable hinge closure that includes a first side and a second side, wherein the first side of the bi-stable hinge closure and the second side of the bi-stable hinge closure are movable relative to each other between a first stable position and a second stable position, and wherein the first side of the bi-stable hinge closure and the second side of the bi-stable hinge closure are configured to close the top portion of the tool pouch when in the first stable position and to open a top portion of the tool pouch when in the second stable position; a protective layer covering the bi-stable hinge closure, the protective layer formed from a fabric separate from the tool pouch and substantially surrounding the bi-stable hinge closure

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 61.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15178183', '15503668', '14424409', '16144649', '10813524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8409992951804319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5112013888067273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8080195045430615
- Mean Citation Score: 232.22779800000004
- Max Citation Score: 345.78754
- Similarity Product: 312.49374208963275

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