PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["280", "166000"]

Abstract:
A universally mountable articulating step for a vehicle which includes a bypass linkage set which is common to mounting in a plurality of vehicles. The linkage set includes front and rear casting members that enable the step to collapse on itself. An independent mounting adapter which is unique to a particular vehicle is provided including a mounting configuration adapted to be attached to a vehicle and attachment mounting locations on which the bypass linkage set is to be mounted.

Claim (Index 20):
A universally mountable articulating step assembly for vehicles, comprising:\n a bypass linkage set which is common to mounting to a plurality of vehicles, the bypass linkage set including front and rear casting members that enable the step to collapse on itself to move a step portion between extended and retracted positions, the bypass linkage set including a mounting plate portion; a step mounting portion operably connected to the step portion, the step mounting portion having a plurality of mounting holes, a step attachment portion provided on the bypass linkage set, the step attachment portion having at least two sets of elongated slots adapted to operably fasten the step mounting portion to the bypass linkage set, and, a plurality of apertures provided in the mounting plate portion of the bypass linkage set, wherein the plurality of apertures adapt the articulating step assembly to be mounted directly to the vehicle or directly to at least one independent mounting adapter which is/are unique to particular vehicles, wherein each independent mounting adapter includes a mounting configuration adapted to be attached to the particular vehicle and attachment mounting locations on which the mounting plate portion of the bypass linkage set is to be mounted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70833
- Patent Class: 280.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15682006', '15082845', '12564118', '12069849', '14076893']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8231653411492491
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5375294306890812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946017501032323
- Mean Citation Score: 241.037556
- Max Citation Score: 384.4645
- Similarity Product: 380.21988507241

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test