PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16097861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["131", "370000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a cast sheet of homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: •pulping ( 108 ) cellulose fibres ( 5 ) with water ( 6 ); •grinding ( 102, 106 ) a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to tobacco particles ( 10 ); •combining ( 107 ) the pulped cellulose fibres with the tobacco particles and with a binder ( 8 ) to form a slurry; •homogenizing the slurry; •casting ( 110 ) the slurry to form a cast sheet of homogenized tobacco material from the slurry; •discarding ( 112 ) undesired portions of the cast sheet; and •introducing ( 113 ) the discarded undesired portions ( 9 ) of the cast sheet into the slurry.

Claim (Index 22):
The method according to  claim 18 , wherein the step of introducing the discarded undesired portions of the cast sheet into the slurry takes place only if the blend of tobacco present in said discarded undesired portions of the cast sheet is the same as the blend of tobacco in said tobacco particles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20635
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15503805', '15503519', '15503533', '15772161', '15526008']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8095621730400901
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332337236801841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7819293281040995
- Mean Citation Score: 329.107938
- Max Citation Score: 384.1788
- Similarity Product: 242.4566829039574

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