PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["285", "252000"]

Abstract:
A fire hose coupling comprises a body having a first end connected to a fire hose and a second end having either male or female threads or, alternatively, a quarter-turn sexless coupler. The fire hose coupling comprises a recessed portion formed in an outer surface of the body. The recessed portion is shaped to define a visuotactile directional indicator such as an arrow. The recessed portion may include a light-reflecting surface to enhance visibility such as a super reflective metal film, a photo luminescent coating, or a phosfluorescent coating. The recessed directional indicator may be formed in female, male or sexless (Storz) couplings.

Claim (Index 10):
A coupling-hose combination comprising:\n a hose; an annular coupling body having a first end connected to the hose and a second end that defines a coupler for connecting to another coupling; a plurality of lugs that extend radially outwardly from annular coupling body; wherein the annular coupling body includes a plurality of visual directional indicators between the lugs for indicating a direction of exit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85484
- Patent Class: 285.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15668070', '13255640', '15299911', '15897529', '13394725']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7747201556052797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4295709416546671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7402052342102184
- Mean Citation Score: 291.770912
- Max Citation Score: 362.8308
- Similarity Product: 322.78151687722215

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