PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16294758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["002", "312000"]

Abstract:
An adjustable maternity pant expander is provided for bridging the gap in the waistband of a pair of pants worn by a pregnant woman. The pant expander comprises a strip, with tapered ends in some embodiments. The pant expander uses Velcro and/or buttons to fasten under or over belt loops on pants worn by a user.

Claim (Index 12):
A cover configured to bridge an open fly of a pair of pants, comprising:\n a flexible elastomeric strip having a length between two inches and thirty inches, the strip having an upper side, an underside, a first end, a second end, and a mid portion extending therebetween, said flexible elastomeric strip further having a first loop portion interposed between the mid portion and the first end, and a second loop portion interposed between the mind portion and the second end, the first loop and the second loop portions each having an adjustable length; a first hook fastener affixed to the first end on the underside; a second hook fastener affixed to the second end on the underside; and a loop fastener affixed to the mid portion on the underside and having a length equal to an entire length of the mid portion, said loop fastener having a first half and a second half configured to selectively engage the first and second hook fasteners, respectively, and further having a contact surface interposed between the first and second halves of the loop fastener, said contact surface configured to contact a skin surface exposed through the open fly of a pair of pants during use, the loop fastener further imparting a rigidity to the mid portion of the flexible elastomeric strip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36364
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14636688', '12218569', '14027232', '12657538', '11620899']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.646782402630244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4673248076843706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6288366431356567
- Mean Citation Score: 189.862084
- Max Citation Score: 196.62997
- Similarity Product: 152.17356917197642

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

Dataset: test