PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213694
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["264", "476000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) grinding recycled PET bottles into a group of flakes; (B) washing the flakes; (C) identifying and removing impurities, including impure flakes, from the group of flakes; (D) passing the flakes through a PET crystallizer; (E) passing the group of flakes through an MRS extruder while maintaining the pressure within the MRS portion of the MRS extruder below about 18 millibars; (F) passing the resulting polymer melt through at least one filter having a micron rating of less than about 50 microns; and (G) forming the recycled polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament that consists essentially of recycled PET.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein the method comprises manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from 100% recycled PET

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15473385', '14546796', '15419955', '15473402', '14546819']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8702829743459177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6140289404052385
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8446575709518498
- Mean Citation Score: 537.59893
- Max Citation Score: 587.30884
- Similarity Product: 503.3674298777676

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

Dataset: test