PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948075
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["428", "161000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for mechanically bonding substrates together. The apparatuses may include a pattern roll including a pattern element protruding radially outward. The pattern element includes a pattern surface and includes one or more channels adjacent the pattern surface. The pattern roll may be positioned adjacent an anvil roll to define a nip between the pattern surface and the anvil roll, wherein the pattern roll is biased toward the anvil roll to define a nip pressure between pattern surface and the anvil roll. As substrates advance between the pattern roll and anvil roll, the substrates are compressed between the anvil roll and the pattern surface to form a discrete bond region between the first and second substrates. As such, during the bonding process, some yielded substrate material flows from under the pattern surface and into the channel to form a channel grommet region.

Claim (Index 13):
The laminate of  claim 6 , wherein the discrete bond includes a first surface opposite a second surface; and wherein the discrete bond includes:\n a first thickness between the first surface and the second surface in the first region; a second thickness between the first surface and the second surface in the second region; a third thickness between the first surface and the second surface in the third region; and wherein the second thickness is greater than the first thickness; and wherein the second thickness is greater than the first thickness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14301426', '14301416', '14492114', '14038812', '15042174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.932284259948158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.547864488242565
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8938422827775988
- Mean Citation Score: 394.9761600000001
- Max Citation Score: 471.7915
- Similarity Product: 265.9952496045232

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