PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979993
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["162", "056000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to microfibrillated cellulose (“MFC”), in particular to microfibrillated cellulose, which is morphologically different from conventional MFC known in the art and/or which provides improved water retention properties and/or improved rheological properties, in particular increased zero shear viscosity, ηo, (also known as: “viscosity at rest”, i.e. viscosity in the absence of shear forces), in solution, in particular in polyethylene glycol (PEG) as solvent, vis-a-vis conventional MFC as known in the art.

Claim (Index 2):
Homogenizer for use in the manufacture of microfibrillated cellulose, wherein said homogenizer at least comprises the following components:\n at least one volume segment, optionally a chamber, which is located upstream of an orifice, at least one orifice, at least one volume segment, optionally at least one chamber, which is located downstream of the orifice, in which the microfibrillated cellulose is subjected to a turbulent flow regime, wherein said homogenizer is suitable to subject a cellulose slurry to a pressure drop between the volume segment located upstream of said orifice, and the other volume segment located downstream of said orifice, wherein said pressure drop is at least 1000 bar, optionally more than 2000 bar, optionally more than 2500 bar, further optionally more than 3000 bar, wherein the residence time of a given flow segment comprising the cellulose fibers in the at least one orifice is less than 20 microseconds, optionally less than 10 microseconds, more optionally less than 2 microseconds.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84615
- Patent Class: 162.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15311730', '14441268', '15389482', '14592922', '13496109']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6964062277883382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5736110212042962
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6841267071299341
- Mean Citation Score: 278.116078
- Max Citation Score: 536.6912
- Similarity Product: 401.1184847640991

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

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