PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16269442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["427", "483000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a material structure from structural units contained within a liquid solution in a spray head is described. The liquid solution includes a solvent and a solute, the solute comprising a plurality of the structural units, the structural units including monomer units, oligomer units, or combinations thereof. The method comprises forming droplets of the liquid solution including the structural units, and spraying the droplets on a substrate, thereby substantially increasing the reactivity of the structural units within the droplets relative to the structural units within the liquid solution in the spray head. The increase in reactivity can result from the droplets containing an excess of a particular ion, the ion excess resulting from a voltage applied to conductive walls of the device which dispenses the droplets. The material structure is then formed on the substrate from the more highly reactive structural units within the droplets.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of forming a coating on a surface of a substrate from a mixture contained within a spray head, the spray head comprising a dispensing device, the mixture comprising structural units in a solvent, the structural units comprising monomers, oligomers, or a combination thereof, the method comprising:\n causing a surface of the mixture adjacent to the dispensing device to become electrically charged; forming droplets from the mixture at the electrically charged surface, wherein the droplets have a net electrical charge, and directing the droplets to the surface of the substrate; and forming the coating over the surface of the substrate from a plurality of the structural units in the droplets; wherein the structural units in the mixture contained within the spray head are in a substantially equilibrium state, such that they do not substantially bond with one another; and the forming of the electrically charged droplets results in the mixture in the droplets being in a state which is further from equilibrium than a state of the mixture contained within the spray head, thereby allowing the structural units in the droplets to form covalent bonds to one another or to the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 98.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38806
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13953504', '15660474', '11358817', '15669304', '10244128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7601334749477251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5507514791042246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.739195275363375
- Mean Citation Score: 249.434676
- Max Citation Score: 386.3281
- Similarity Product: 353.3492948607982

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

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