PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011871
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["510", "515000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to fabric softener active compositions comprising a combination of a mixture of quarternary ester ammonium compounds and fatty solvents ( a fatty acid ester, a fatty acid, a fatty alcohol and mixtures thereof) and methods of making and using the same. The fabric softener active compositions preferably comprise component (a), said component being a mixture of quarternary ester ammonium compounds obtained by esterification of a mixture of alkanolamines comprises at least a trialkanolamine and a monoalkyldialkanolamine; component (b), said component being a fatty acid ester or a mixture of fatty acid esters, wherein the component (b) content is in the range from 5 to 60% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition; and a component (c), said component being a fatty acid or a mixture of fatty acids, wherein the component (c) content is in the range from 0 to 15% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition. The invention also proposes fabric softener compositions, comprising the previously described active compositions, and methods of making and using the same.

Claim (Index 1):
A fabric softener active composition comprising:\n a component (a), said component comprising a mixture of at least a quaternary ester ammonium compound of formula (I) and at least a quaternary ester ammonium compound of formula (II): wherein in formula (I):\n X 1  represents a hydroxyalkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkyl group containing one aromatic group; \n R 1  is a linear or branched alkyl group containing 5 to 23 carbon atoms or a linear alkenyl group containing 5 to 23 carbon atoms and 1 to 3 double bonds; \n R 2  and R 3  each independently represent \u2014OH or \u2014O-L 1 -C(O)\u2014R 1 ; \n L represents a \u2014(OCH 2 CH 2 ) a \u2014(OCHR 6 CH 2 ) b \u2014 group, wherein R 6  represents an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a represents a number within the range of 0 to 20, b represents a number within the range of 0 to 6 and the sum of a+b represents the average alkoxylation degree which corresponds to a number within the range from 0 to 26; \n m, n and p each independently represent a number within the range from 1 to 4, q represents a number within the range from 0 to 26 and A \u2212  represents an anion; \n and wherein in formula (II):\n X 2  represents a hydroxyalkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkyl group containing one aromatic group; \n R 4  is a linear or branched alkyl group containing 5 to 23 carbon atoms or a linear alkenyl group containing 5 to 23 carbon atoms and 1 to 3 double bonds; \n R 5  represents a \u2014H, OH or \u2014O-Lw-C(O)\u2014R 4 ; \n L represents a \u2014(OCH 2 CH 2 ) a \u2014(OCHR 6 CH 2 ) b \u2014 group, wherein R 6  represents an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a represents a number within the range of 0 to 20, b represents a number within the range of 0 to 6 and the sum of a+b represents the average alkoxylation degree which corresponds to a number within the range from 0 to 26; \n s and t each independently represent a number within the range from 1 to 4, w represents a number within the range from 0 to 26 and A \u2212  represents an anion;\n a component (b), said component being a fatty acid ester or a mixture of fatty acid esters, wherein the component (b) content is in the range from 5 to 60% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition; \n a component (c), said component being a fatty acid or a mixture of fatty acids, wherein the component (c) content is in the range from 0 to 15% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition; \n a component (d), said component being a fatty alcohol or a mixture of fatty alcohols, wherein the component (d) content is higher than 0% wt. and lower than 20% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition; and \n a component (e), said component being a solvent, wherein the component (e) content is higher than 0% wt. and lower than 8% wt. based on the total weight of the fabric softener active composition; or alternatively, in the absence of component (e).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82667
- Patent Class: 510.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12521697', '13072701', '10964985', '10680541', '12752220']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7054755588564707
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4846820172762794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6833962046984516
- Mean Citation Score: 323.06966
- Max Citation Score: 337.07333
- Similarity Product: 250.97220370060444

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

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