PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["424", "456000"]

Abstract:
A hard or soft capsule is disclosed comprising a shell and a fill material, wherein the shell comprises an interpenetrating network comprising a silk polymer and a film-forming natural polymer. A method of making a hard or soft capsule is also disclosed, comprising dissolving a silk protein in a solvent system to form a solubilized silk protein solution; mixing the solubilized silk protein solution with a film-forming natural polymer to form a homogenous shell material; and encapsulating a fill material with the homogenous shell material.

Claim (Index 1):
A soft capsule shell comprising gelatin, gylcerol, sorbitol, water; and about 0.3% silk silk fibroin by weight.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11628
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14776325', '14527201', '15895344', '15718531', '15404368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7098509836246788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5317041934604353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6920363046082544
- Mean Citation Score: 227.55957
- Max Citation Score: 339.0594200000001
- Similarity Product: 224.5004026808835

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

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