PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964721
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["131", "328000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to electronic smoking articles exhibiting improved moisture control of a reservoir contained therein. The reservoir can be formed of fibrous materials, such as cellulose acetate fiber, thermoplastic fiber, non-thermoplastic fiber, or a combination thereof. The disclosure further provides methods for forming electronic smoking articles and methods of packaging electronic smoking articles (including cartridges thereof) so as to improve moisture control of the reservoir.

Claim (Index 12):
An electronic smoking article comprising:\n a housing having an air inlet adapted for entry of air into the housing and an air outlet adapted for exit of a formed aerosol, the inlet and the outlet having an air passage therebetween; a reservoir within the housing that is configured to hold an aerosol precursor fluid; a heater in fluid communication with the reservoir; and one or both of a first check valve positioned at the air inlet and a second check valve positioned at the air outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14158264', '15964912', '14011992', '13536438', '15808271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7945667977647946
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5443372362774948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7695438416160646
- Mean Citation Score: 243.624364
- Max Citation Score: 287.89655
- Similarity Product: 228.93248520420792

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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