PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770070
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["423", "544000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to azirconium solution or sol comprising: (a) zirconium, (b) nitrate, acetate and/or chloride ions, and (c) one or more complexing agents being an organic compound comprising at least one of the following functional groups: an amine, an organosulphate, a sulphonate, a hydroxyl, an ether or a carboxylic acid group, wherein the molar ratio of components (a):(b) is 1:0.7 to 1:4.0, the molar ratio of components (a):(c) is 1:0.0005 to 1:0.1, and the pH of the zirconium solution or sol is less than 5. The invention also relates to a process for preparing a zirconium solution or sol, the process comprising the steps of: (a) dissolving a zirconium salt in nitric, acetic and/or hydrochloric acid, and (b) adding one or more complexing agents to the resulting solution, the one or more complexing agents being an organic compound comprising at least one of the following functional groups: an amine, an organosulphate, a sulphonate, a hydroxyl, an ether or a carboxylic acid group, and (c) heating the solution or sol to a temperature of at least 75° C. In addition, the invention relates to products formed from the zirconium solution or sol or obtainable by the process.

Claim (Index 16):
A zirconium solution or sol as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the complexing agent is an alpha hydroxycarboxylic acid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90588
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12308948', '10519040', '11074659', '14247261', '12569485']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.777859070378714
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715607339877757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7472292367396203
- Mean Citation Score: 175.78792599999997
- Max Citation Score: 182.17276
- Similarity Product: 144.79456590388295

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

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