PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979393
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["428", "137000"]

Abstract:
An insulating material and a method using that material for preventing perioperative hypothermia in hospital patients. Hospital blankets, hospital gowns and thermal wraps are made with the insulating material, which comprises in one embodiment an inner layer and an outer layer of a nonwoven material and a middle layer of a polymer laminate material. The nonwoven material is a bicomponent coextruded spunbond nonwoven polypropylene and polyethylene textile and the polymer laminate material comprises polyethylene and metallised polyethylene terephthalate. The nonwoven material is arranged with an elastic such that the insulating material can change between a first configuration wherein the elastic is stretched such that the primary material lies adjacent to it, and a second configuration wherein the elastic is relaxed such that the primary material is bowed with respect to it, forming at least one cavity for entrapping air.

Claim (Index 34):
A thermal insulating material for making hospital blankets, hospital gowns, and thermal wraps, comprising:\n a first layer of primary material comprising bicomponent coextruded spunbond nonwoven textile material comprising polypropylene and polyethylene; an elastic element comprising a non-latex core and a single component high-melt component covering; and a second layer of primary material comprising a laminate comprising a layer of polyethylene film, a metallized polyethylene terephthalate film, and polyethylene film; wherein the first layer of primary material is arranged with the elastic element such that the insulating material can change between a first configuration in which the elastic element is stretched such that the layer of primary material lies adjacent the elastic element, and a second configuration in which the layer of primary material is bowed with respect to the elastic element so as to form at least one cavity; and wherein the second layer of primary material comprises the outer layer of the hospital blankets, hospital gowns, or thermal wraps, and the layer of primary material comprise the inner layer of the hospital blankets, gowns, or thermal wraps.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 83.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98649
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15033888', '14842533', '11277591', '13460368', '10484663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8886698584960171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4706127044974295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8468641430961583
- Mean Citation Score: 140.625472
- Max Citation Score: 149.0803
- Similarity Product: 105.30078597459791

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

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