PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014333
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["428", "036500"]

Abstract:
Provided is an insulation product, optionally in a tubular form, that includes a coated foam insulation layer, where the foam insulation layer has a closed-cell structure. The coating can comprise a thermoplastic elastomer that seamlessly covers and is bonded to an outer surface of the elastomeric foam layer in the absence of an adhesive bonding material to protect the foam insulation layer, e.g., during outdoor insulation applications. A pipe where the insulation product is installed is also provided, as is a method of installing the insulation product, and a method of producing the insulation product.

Claim (Index 23):
A method for installing an insulation product on a pipe, the method comprising:\n (a) providing a composite tubing of  claim 7 ; (b) slitting the tubing longitudinally to provide two slit longitudinal ends traversing the length of the tubing; (c) applying the tubing around a section of pipe to encompass the outer diameter of the pipe section and so that the two slit ends are directly adjacent to one another, thereby forming an open seam; (d) coating each of the two slit longitudinal ends of the tubing with an adhesive coating and contacting the coated slit longitudinal ends to each other to form a sealed seam; and (e) coating the two transverse ends of the tubing with an adhesive coating to seal the transverse ends and/or to adhere one or both of the transverse ends to another length of insulation tubing, optionally another length of the composite tubing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16300515', '14870602', '10850512', '13241994', '12986560']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8922298890909753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4820796604814295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8512148662300207
- Mean Citation Score: 175.47924200000003
- Max Citation Score: 182.251
- Similarity Product: 128.75248727983237

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