PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217665
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "039000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit containing a special recording material and circuitry configured to control the image forming unit to form a hardly visible image on a recording medium with the special recording material. The hardly visible image is formed of a halftone dot image comprising isolated dots in a number smaller than that of isolated dots forming a visible image having the same image area ratio as the hardly visible image.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus of  claim 7 ,\n wherein the infrared absorbing toner comprises a binder resin and a near-infrared absorbing material, and has a loss tangent (tan \u03b4i) of 2.5 or more in a temperature range of from 100\u00b0 C. to 140\u00b0 C., wherein a color toner forming the visible image comprises a binder resin and a colorant, and has a loss tangent (tan \u03b4c) of 2 or less in a temperature range of from 100\u00b0 C. to 140\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16333892', '13043116', '14191822', '13690408', '12263512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8171376842432142
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4568622499902993
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7811101408179227
- Mean Citation Score: 163.406302
- Max Citation Score: 174.27965
- Similarity Product: 141.222559509933

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

Dataset: test