PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["473", "409000"]

Abstract:
A method for a golfer to putt a golf ball over the surface of a green toward a hole comprises selecting a target line on the green, assuming a stance next to the ball facing the hole, addressing the ball by gripping the shaft of a putter and positioning it behind the ball with the hands generally facing toward one another in front of and facing the golfer's body, executing a backstroke by drawing the hands toward the body's vertical centerline to swing the arms rearwardly about an axis of rotation through the shoulders to take the putter head away from the ball along a rearward extension of the target line, and transitioning to and executing a forward stroke by moving the hands in a forward direction away from the golfer's body to swing the arms about the axis of rotation to stroke the putter head to strike the ball for rolling it along the target line.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for a golfer to putt a golf ball over the surface of a green toward a hole using a putter having a shaft and a putter head with a face, comprising:\n selecting a target line on the green along which the ball is to roll after being putted; assuming a stance next to the ball by positioning the body's vertical centerline so that if extended to run in front of the body would generally project a vertical central plane intersecting the ground along a line which could be visualized by the golfer, looking ahead, to extend parallel to and spaced inside of the target line; addressing the ball by allowing the arms to hang down naturally and gripping the shaft with the hands generally facing toward one another and positioned generally in front of the vertical centerline of the golfer's body so that an intermediate portion between the hands on the shaft is generally aligned with the body's vertical centerline and the face of the putter head is oriented behind the ball generally square to the target line; executing a backstroke from the address position by initially tilting the shaft slightly forward while flexing the wrists backwardly and then drawing the hands toward the body's vertical centerline to swing the arms rearwardly in unison about an axis of rotation which extends generally through the shoulders thereby to take the putter head away from the ball generally along a rearward extension of the target line; transitioning to and executing a forward stroke by moving the hands in a forward direction away from the golfer's body to swing the arms in unison about the axis of rotation thereby to stroke the putter head so its face strikes the ball for rolling it along the target line; and extending the hands and arms in a follow-through to complete the forward stroke.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26027
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10491970', '13991622', '10657326', '12017233', '15918520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6920325962686594
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5773199810317322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6805613347449667
- Mean Citation Score: 391.601656
- Max Citation Score: 497.73856
- Similarity Product: 423.0023136705399

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