PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["427", "458000"]

Abstract:
Methods for encasing bodies including smokeless tobacco or a tobacco substitute with a polymeric casing can include coating a compressed body with microfibers, applying tubular casings to compressed bodies, printing netting and webs on compressed bodies, injection molding around compressed bodies, applying a webbing to compressed bodies, placing compressed bodies into a skin forming bath, and including thermoplastic polymers in a compressed body.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a polymer encased smokeless tobacco or tobacco substitute product comprising:\n forming a compressed body including smokeless tobacco, a tobacco substitute, or a combination thereof; applying an adhesive or an electrostatic charge to said compressed body to form a sticky body; coating said sticky body with microfibers comprising a polymeric material to form a microfiber coated body; heating said microfiber coated body to melt bond said microfibers to form an encased body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14657018', '14212826', '15261515', '14213317', '14212537']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7881381264070372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141416639826426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7607384801645977
- Mean Citation Score: 194.94676
- Max Citation Score: 266.75824
- Similarity Product: 202.77144662268643

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