PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["024", "712900"]

Abstract:
A stopper for securing an end of a lace in an article having at least one eyelet, such as a shoe, without having to form an exposed knot. A thin, rigid body includes a series of openings arranged in a row, including a first, middle opening through which the lace is routed from the eyelet, a second opening proximate one end through which the lace is routed from the middle opening, and a third opening proximate an opposite through which the lace is routed from the second opening via the first end of the body, the third opening having a slot-shaped configuration. When tension is applied to the lace, as by a foot being inserted into a shoe, a locking engagement is formed between the lace and stopper and the stopper reacts against the eyelet. The stopper may be hidden from view behind the eyelet stay of a shoe.

Claim (Index 10):
The stopper of  claim 1 , wherein said second and third through openings are spaced outwardly from said first through opening by distances sufficient that at least portions of said second and third through openings will be positioned beyond a predetermined perimeter of said eyelet when said first through opening is aligned coaxially with said eyelet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23288
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13815521', '15299555', '14918702', '14565262', '10691179']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7988555547245124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194414272644413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7709141419785053
- Mean Citation Score: 305.398962
- Max Citation Score: 463.1872
- Similarity Product: 308.41266501235964

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