PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16097861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["131", "370000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a cast sheet of homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: •pulping ( 108 ) cellulose fibres ( 5 ) with water ( 6 ); •grinding ( 102, 106 ) a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to tobacco particles ( 10 ); •combining ( 107 ) the pulped cellulose fibres with the tobacco particles and with a binder ( 8 ) to form a slurry; •homogenizing the slurry; •casting ( 110 ) the slurry to form a cast sheet of homogenized tobacco material from the slurry; •discarding ( 112 ) undesired portions of the cast sheet; and •introducing ( 113 ) the discarded undesired portions ( 9 ) of the cast sheet into the slurry.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 1 , including the step of:\n blending one or more the following tobaccos types:\n Bright tobacco; \n Dark tobacco; \n Aromatic tobacco; \n Filler tobacco; \n to obtain the blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20635
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15503805', '15503519', '15503533', '15772161', '15526008']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8082587459159224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5347817426073977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.78091104558507
- Mean Citation Score: 329.107938
- Max Citation Score: 384.1788
- Similarity Product: 305.14890054316515

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

Dataset: test