PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["312", "237000"]

Abstract:
Adjustable hinge assemblies for partially or completely rotating an object joined thereto about an axis in specific, pre-determined increments defined by the interaction of ball pins and detents permit the adjustable hinge to retain an attached object in specific rotational positions until sufficient force is applied in the plane of rotation to overcome this interaction. In certain cases the object may be a door, window, baffle, or airfoil. Preferably, the adjustable hinges may be used as part of a sneeze guard assembly to hold a main sneeze guard pane whose angle can be adjusted to protect food from airborne contamination, such as in airborne saliva or mucus droplets. An optional tuck-away hinge pane prevents contamination of food from the ends of the sneeze guard assembly.

Claim (Index 1):
An adjustable hinge apparatus comprising:\n a) a first retaining plate component having an outer surface and an inner surface, said first retaining plate comprising an axial cavity and a plurality of ball pins protruding from the inner surface thereof, said ball pins being retained within respective ball pin holes formed in the first retaining plate component; b) a rotatable arm component comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion extending away from the proximal portion, wherein said proximal portion comprises an axial hole and a plurality of detent holes formed at least partially around the axial hole; c) a second retaining plate component having an outer surface and an inner surface, said inner surface comprising an axial cavity and a raised shoulder component circumferentially positioned around said axial cavity and structured to fit within the axial hole of the rotatable arm component; and d) a joining component affixed to the axial cavities of the first retaining plate component and the second retaining plate component, and extending through the axial hole of the rotatable arm component so as to retain the rotatable arm sandwiched between the first retaining plate component and the second retaining plate component and to retain the axial hole of the rotatable arm component positioned on the raised shoulder component of the second retaining plate component, wherein the ball pins of the first retaining plate and the detent holes are structured and arranged so as to engage and disengage when the rotatable arm is rotated about the raised shoulder component, and the rotatable arm is movably held in place by the ball pins relative to the first retaining plate when the hall pins engage with the detent holes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60714
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12197271', '14173766', '14589675', '14621154', '15221281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8043455208408468
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4832301399755221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7722339827543143
- Mean Citation Score: 180.354746
- Max Citation Score: 216.07494
- Similarity Product: 158.2143526478648

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

Dataset: test