PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141474
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["493", "451000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for forming patterns on sheet material are disclosed. The method comprises a continuous lateral stretch process for producing zero- or near zero-curvature structures. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises pre-gathering the sheet material in the lateral direction to form longitudinal corrugated folds and then feeding the corrugated material through one or more sets of oscillating formers, preferably articulating discs, to impart folding in the lateral direction. Optionally, the sheet material may be fed through one or more sets of patterned rollers.

Claim (Index 2):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein the sheet material is longitudinally corrugated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59322
- Patent Class: 493.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11752806', '14685113', '14064927', '13208717', '12210112']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.648237089947695
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.511976980443544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6346110789972799
- Mean Citation Score: 207.23059
- Max Citation Score: 284.39243
- Similarity Product: 194.9733935527718

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

Dataset: test