PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16177905
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["131", "328000"]

Abstract:
A smoking article having a mouth end and a distal end is provided, including a heat source; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the heat source; at least one air inlet downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; and an airflow pathway extending between the at least one air inlet and the mouth end of the smoking article. The airflow pathway includes a first portion extending longitudinally upstream from the at least one air inlet towards the aerosol-forming substrate, and a second portion extending longitudinally downstream from the first portion to the mouth end of the smoking article.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of reducing or eliminating increases in temperature of an aerosol-forming substrate of a smoking article during puffing, the method comprising:\n providing a smoking article, comprising:\n a heat source; \n an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the heat source; \n at least one air inlet downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; and \n an airflow pathway extending between the at least one air inlet and the mouth end of the smoking article, wherein the airflow pathway comprises a first portion extending longitudinally upstream from the at least one air inlet towards the aerosol-forming substrate and a second portion extending longitudinally downstream from the first portion towards the mouth end of the smoking article; and \n drawing air into the smoking article through the at least one air inlet, such that the air passes upstream through the first portion of the airflow pathway towards the aerosol-forming substrate and then downstream towards the mouth end of the smoking article through the second portion of the airflow pathway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42857
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14377381', '14654689', '14648025', '14915769', '14787911']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8047921713994438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5671906687513022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7810320211346297
- Mean Citation Score: 393.69778
- Max Citation Score: 461.67813
- Similarity Product: 428.4563348792338

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

Dataset: test