PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900468
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["131", "353000"]

Abstract:
A rod for use in a smoking article comprises a gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material circumscribed by a wrapper. The sheet of homogenised tobacco material may comprises one or more aerosol-formers and have an aerosol former content of greater than 5% on a dry weight basis or of between 5% and 30% by weight on a dry weight basis. The rod may comprise a continuous element to which one or more additives have been applied, which is incorporated into the gathered continuous sheet of homogenised tobacco material. A method of forming the rod comprises the steps of: providing a continuous sheet of homogenised tobacco material; gathering the continuous sheet of homogenised tobacco material transversely relative to the longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered continuous sheet of homogenised tobacco material with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; and severing the continuous rod into a plurality of discrete rods. The sheet of homogenised tobacco material is preferably crimped or otherwise textured.

Claim (Index 11):
The method according to  claim 2 , wherein the sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a width of at least 25 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 63.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25974
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14123166', '14404549', '14404055', '14917215', '15500962']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8105542967947351
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5510230281797907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7846011699332407
- Mean Citation Score: 355.53555
- Max Citation Score: 418.43805
- Similarity Product: 331.14596821299784

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