PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116736
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "702000"]

Abstract:
A hanger for connecting a structural member to a structural support including a base sized and shaped for receiving the structural member thereon. First and second side panels extend upward from the base. First and second back panels each extend from a respective one of the side panels. First and second top flanges each extend from a respective one of the back panels. An opening in one of said first and second side panels and said first and second back panels is configured to receive a fastener to attach the hanger to one of the structural member and the structural support. A slot is adjacent the opening. An area between the opening and the slot defines a yieldable portion selected to deform at a load that is less than the shear load capacity of the fastener when received through the opening for connecting the hanger to one of the structural member and the structural support.

Claim (Index 37):
A connector for connecting a first structural member to a second structural member using one or more fasteners, the construction connector comprising:\n a first connection portion configured to attach to the first structural member; and a second connection portion connected to the first connection portion and configured to attach to the second structural member, the second connection portion defining:\n an aperture configured to receive one of the fasteners to attach the second connection portion to the second structural member; and \n a slot adjacent the aperture, the slot being sized and shaped so that the fasteners are inhibited from being received in the slot, the slot and the aperture being shaped and arranged relative to each other to define a yieldable portion of the second connection portion selected to deform at a load that is less than the shear load capacity of the fastener when received through the aperture for connecting the construction connector to the second structural member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65574
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353943', '14106714', '14476938', '12946855', '11297426']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8203157625506514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5387509031251326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7921592766080996
- Mean Citation Score: 254.342656
- Max Citation Score: 398.3328
- Similarity Product: 318.97971677856447

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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