PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393538
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["180", "444000"]

Abstract:
A method of coupling a rack and pinion steering mechanism to a vehicle includes interfacing a first spherical washer with the rack and pinion steering mechanism and interfacing a second spherical washer with the vehicle. The second spherical washer is interfaced with the first spherical washer. A relative angle is formed between the rack and pinion steering mechanism and the vehicle via the first spherical washer and the second spherical washer. The first spherical washer is retained with the second spherical washer via a ring retainer.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the ring retainer is formed of a polymeric material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8125
- Patent Class: 180.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14805850', '11858909', '14699591', '13134705', '14795359']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7268415790163557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048424829155007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7046416694062703
- Mean Citation Score: 167.132952
- Max Citation Score: 283.7866
- Similarity Product: 250.7217002866745

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

Dataset: test