PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16508620
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["118", "600000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for collecting cross-aligned fiber threads, comprising an elongated assembly having a plurality of segments including at least a first segment, a second segment, and an intermediate segment, the first segment positioned at one end of the intermediate segment and the second segment positioned at an opposite end of the intermediate segment, each segment being electrically chargeable; an electrically chargeable emitter for electrospinning nanoscale fiber streams comprising charged fiber branches, the emitter having a tip positioned offset and between an edge of the first segment and an edge of the second segment; a support structure for rotating the elongated assembly about a longitudinal axis and applying an electrical charge to at least the edges of the first and second segment; at least one electrically chargeable steering electrode for attracting fiber streams, the at least one steering electrode chargeable with an electrical polarity opposing a charge applied to the emitter.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for collecting cross-aligned fiber threads, comprising:\n providing at least the apparatus of  claim 1 , said apparatus comprising an elongated assembly having a plurality of segments consisting of at least a first segment, a second segment, and an intermediate segment, said first segment positioned at one end of said intermediate segment and said second segment positioned at an opposite end of said intermediate segment; electrospinning nanoscale fiber streams from at least one emitter, said fiber streams comprising many charged fiber branches, said at least one emitter being electrically charged and having a tip positioned offset away from and between said first segment and said second segment realizing an electrical potential difference; charging each of said first segment and said second segment, while maintaining said intermediate segment at an electrical neutral, said charging imparting a polarity opposing a charge on said at least one emitter; rotating said elongated assembly about a longitudinal axis, said charged fiber branches being attracted by said opposing electrical charge on a circumferential edge of said first segment and said second segment, said fiber branches attaching to said edge and spanning a separation distance between said first segment and said second segment; electrically grounding said intermediate segment and removing said electrical charge from said first segment and said second segment; electrically charging at least one steering electrode with a charge of opposing polarity to said charge applied to said at least one emitter; attracting said charged fiber branches along motion pathways toward said at least one emitter, and said elongated assembly being positioned to intercept said fiber branches, said fiber branches attaching to at least said intermediate segment, said intermediate segment being electrically grounded.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51562
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16460589', '14734147', '14825493', '14385806', '14434770']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8240360579742283
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5810572867664611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7997381808534516
- Mean Citation Score: 325.915202
- Max Citation Score: 510.22766
- Similarity Product: 434.25708679580094

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