PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876240
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "375000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are fibers which contain identification fibers. The identification fibers can contain a plurality of distinct features, or taggants, which vary among the fibers and/or along the length of the identification fibers, tow band, or yarn. The disclosed embodiments also relate to the method for making the fibers. Characterization of the fibers can include identifying distinct features, combinations of distinct features, and number of fibers with various combinations of distinct features and correlating the distinct features to supply chain information. The supply chain information can be used to track the fibers, fiber band, or yarn from manufacturing through intermediaries, conversion to final product, and/or the consumer.

Claim (Index 27):
Method of making an acetate tow band comprising fibers,\n wherein the fibers comprise standard fibers and identification fibers, wherein the standard fibers comprise cellulose acetate, wherein the method comprises:\n (a) obtaining the identification fibers \n (b) producing the standard fibers on a first fiber production process; and \n (c) combining the identification fibers and the standard fibers into the acetate tow band, \n wherein each of the identification fibers exhibits at least one distinct feature, wherein the at least one distinct feature comprises at least one taggant optical properties, wherein the identification fibers consist of one or more groups of distinguishable identification fibers, each group of the distinguishable identification fibers being formed by the identification fibers having the same distinct feature or a same combination of the distinct features, wherein a number of the identification fibers in each group of the distinguishable identification fibers is defined as a fiber count, wherein at least one of the fiber counts corresponds to a taggant fiber count, and wherein (i) the at least one taggant optical properties, (ii) the distinct features in each group of distinguishable identification fibers, and (iii) the one or more taggant fiber counts are representative of at least one supply chain component of the acetate tow band.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 113.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08621
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15825148', '15460388', '14748884', '14748841', '14748745']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6872539468404315
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6240856974585932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6809371219022476
- Mean Citation Score: 579.554112
- Max Citation Score: 601.12805
- Similarity Product: 564.0252720067919

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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