PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200067
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["148", "225000"]

Abstract:
A workpiece made from a self passivating metal and having one or more surface regions defining a Beilby layer as a result of a previous metal shaping operation is activated for subsequent low temperature gas hardening by exposing the workpiece to the vapors produced by heating an oxygen-free nitrogen halide salt.

Claim (Index 37):
The process of  claim 35 , wherein activating and nitrocarburization of the workpiece occur simultaneously and further wherein the workpiece is contacted with an additional compound or compounds containing nitrogen and carbon for achieving the nitrocarburizing process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.15556
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14813290', '12850925', '15409074', '13733939', '14938916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7750199248836559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.595254966841032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7570434290793936
- Mean Citation Score: 300.6574500000001
- Max Citation Score: 541.0892299999998
- Similarity Product: 365.1258720965921

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

Dataset: test