PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["273", "359000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for use in roping skills training and practice provides a practical, effective, lightweight, and economical alternative to using live animals for heeling practice, which involves the roping of the hind legs of the animal. This apparatus includes a simulated animal torso and a pair of simulated hind legs. The apparatus includes a support frame and a drive system. The drive system includes mechanical links that provide interconnection between the pair of simulated hind legs and the drive system, thus providing for lifelike and coordinated leg and torso movement.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the support frame includes a hitch, such that a towing device may be coupled to the support frame with the hitch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86792
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12800063', '11529788', '13327671', '15042195', '12245372']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.58372426218235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5129481326088408
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.576646649224999
- Mean Citation Score: 208.30535
- Max Citation Score: 264.9571
- Similarity Product: 164.5810761348963

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

Dataset: test