PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884728
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["296", "183100"]

Abstract:
A rear deck post assembly is provided for reinforcing a cargo bed of a utility vehicle. The assembly includes a first deck mount coupled to a vehicle frame, and a first rear deck post coupled to the first deck mount. A second deck mount is provided coupled to the vehicle frame and spaced apart from the first deck mount. A second rear deck post is coupled to the second deck mount. A deck sill component is provided longitudinally extending between the first deck post and the second deck post. Deck bolts may be used to couple the deck sill component, deck mounts, and deck posts to the vehicle frame. The first and second deck mounts and deck posts may be a cast aluminum alloy, a cast magnesium alloy, or a fiber reinforced composite material.

Claim (Index 20):
A pickup truck with a reinforced cargo area, comprising:\n a frame; a cargo bed coupled to the frame and having a forward end, a rearward end, two opposing sidewalls, and a bed floor; first and second spaced apart two-piece deck post assemblies, each two-piece deck post assembly comprising a cast aluminum deck mount coupled to the frame at the rearward end of the cargo bed, and a cast aluminum deck post coupled to the respective deck mount, each deck post comprising a vertically extending pillar portion and a horizontally extending coupling portion; and a deck sill component formed using extrusion techniques and defining a U-shaped sleeve having a substantially uniform cross-section along a length dimension, the deck sill component coupled to the deck mounts and longitudinally extending between the horizontally extending coupling portions of the deck posts, wherein the pillar portion of each deck post is configured to exhibit a tapering I-value that is greatest at a lower region near the horizontally extending coupling portion in order to minimize any deflection from a force applied to the respective rear deck post assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80769
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15200865', '12913052', '11271111', '11273887', '11343962']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8046395593869954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.456929733669695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7698685768152654
- Mean Citation Score: 208.876526
- Max Citation Score: 231.77411
- Similarity Product: 182.6910446903384

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

Dataset: test