PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16009276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["428", "213000"]

Abstract:
An acoustical vinyl tile having an integral acoustical layer is disclosed. The vinyl tile includes a vinyl portion, an acoustical portion, and an adhesive layer for fixing the vinyl portion to the acoustical portion. The acoustical portion comprises a crumb rubber component and a polyurethane foam component. The acoustical portion can include 10-40% crumb rubber and 60-90% polyurethane foam. The vinyl tile may also include a coupling feature for coupling to an adjacent vinyl tile. The coupling feature may be in the form of interconnecting tongue and groove elements formed along opposite sides of the vinyl tile so that adjacent vinyl tiles can be coupled together. The tongue and groove elements may incorporate integrated mechanical coupling elements such as, for example, interlocking tabs and spaces. In use, the tongue and groove elements may be arranged and configured to be snap-fitted together.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of making a vinyl tile, comprising:\n providing a vinyl slab portion; providing an acoustical slab portion comprising a mixture of crumb rubber, polyurethane foam and a resin binder; bonding the vinyl slab portion to the acoustical portion; forming one of a tongue element or a groove element into a side of the vinyl tile.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26087
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13468103', '14134133', '15695204', '13706058', '13848332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9131741837698624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5621210155114335
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8780688669440193
- Mean Citation Score: 348.299504
- Max Citation Score: 446.04926
- Similarity Product: 408.42314836555016

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