PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170945
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["294", "082180"]

Abstract:
Eating utensils disclosed herein provide desirable aspects of forks and chopsticks and also provide improved dexterity that enables functionality not possible with either forks or chopsticks alone. The eating utensils may allow a user to grasp, shovel, and pierce food as well as scoop under food from one side or both sides and to cut food with a side edge, all with a single utensil operated with only one hand. Because of the unique way the eating utensils are held and operated, they feel comfortable to users of traditional forks and chopsticks.

Claim (Index 6):
The eating utensil of  claim 1 , wherein the movable portion of the upper elongated member has a centerline, wherein movement of the centerline defines a plane when the eating utensil is transitioned between an open position and a closed position, and wherein a centerline of the lower elongated member is located in the same plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54688
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15870915', '11369709', '13565566', '15407936', '13722300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7480200529424117
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5397446590723374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7271925135554043
- Mean Citation Score: 225.25364
- Max Citation Score: 392.80936
- Similarity Product: 390.42270568733215

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