PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221432
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["224", "241000"]

Abstract:
A tool pouch, tool bag, utility pouch, or similar, comprising one or more individual tool pouches, used by tradesmen in difficult and/or dangerous environments where it would be convenient and preferred for safety reasons for the tool pouches to remain closed or remain open without manual intervention. Tool pouches within a tool pouch are configured with bi-stable hinges in which an over-center cam-spring arrangement alternatively maintains either a fully-closed or a fully-open configuration until an intentional opening or closing action by a user. Individual tool pouches within a tool pouch may be opened or closed independently of the open or closed positions of other tool pouches.

Claim (Index 4):
A tool pouch assembly for carrying items, comprising:\n a pouch composed of a flexible material, the pouch having a long axis and a short axis; a closure attached to the pouch and configurable into a first configuration in which the flexible material is spread to create an opening at a top of the pouch for inserting items into, and removing items from, the pouch, and into a second configuration in which the flexible material is gathered to close the opening at the top of the pouch to keep items within the pouch, the closure including:\n a first closure element, having a first end and a second end; \n a second closure element, having a first end and a second end; \n a first hinge pivotally connecting the first end of the first closure element and the first end of the second closure element; and \n a second hinge, pivotally connecting the second end of the first closure element and the second end of the second closure element; and \n a sleeve formed from a material that is not part of the pouch, the closure being positioned within the sleeve and the sleeve attached to the pouch; the closure configured such that in a first stable position, the flexible material is gathered at the top to close the pouch, and in a second stable position, the flexible material is spread apart to open the pouch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 61.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 224.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15178183', '15503668', '14424409', '16144649', '10813524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8411389368240301
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5128364270443968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8083086858460667
- Mean Citation Score: 232.22779800000004
- Max Citation Score: 345.78754
- Similarity Product: 284.62094993840566

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