PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["440", "057000"]

Abstract:
An outdrive for a marine vessel, such as a watercraft having an inboard engine, is provided. The outdrive can include a standoff box joined with a drive unit having a driveshaft that rotates in response to rotation of an input shaft coupled to an engine within a hull of the watercraft. The drive unit includes a propeller shaft that rotates in response to rotation of the driveshaft, and an associated propeller. The drive unit is vertically movable from a raised mode to a lowered mode, in which the propeller shaft is a preselected distance from a bottom of the boat hull, thereby lowering a thrust point produced by the propeller, all while the watercraft is moving through water and while the propeller is producing thrust. A related method and standoff box are also provided.

Claim (Index 16):
A watercraft comprising:\n a hull including a bow and a stern, with a transom located at the stern; a reference line projecting rearward from a lowermost portion of the transom; an engine disposed in the hull; an input shaft extending away from the engine; a first standoff box unit including an interior and a bottom wall, the first standoff box unit being joined with the transom; a second standoff box unit joined with and movable relative to the first standoff box unit; a transfer shaft rotatably mounted in the interior and rotatably coupled to the input shaft, the transfer shaft further extending into the second standoff box unit; a propeller shaft and a propeller, the propeller shaft configured to rotate upon rotation of the transfer shaft; wherein the second standoff box unit is operable in a raised mode, in which the second standoff box unit is disposed adjacent the first standoff box unit, and in a lowered mode, in which the second standoff box unit is distal from the first standoff box unit, while the watercraft is moving through a body of water, and while the propeller is rotating so as to move the propeller shaft relative to the reference line while maintaining the propeller shaft in a fixed angular relationship relative to the reference line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01389
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15622757', '15622796', '15411511', '15464592', '11225782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6607067643650297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6481129774436071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6594473856728874
- Mean Citation Score: 506.0204999999999
- Max Citation Score: 638.2886
- Similarity Product: 614.3083257625818

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

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