PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["428", "195100"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a floor panel that is processed on roll equipment, whereby a decorative design consisting of elongated striations is printed with the elongated striations oriented in an across-machine direction. The decorative design is printed on a print layer and is subsequently laminated to a substrate layer. The laminated flooring material is then cut such that the elongate sides of the panels are cut in the across machine direction. This results in a floor panel with greater dimensional stability on the elongate side.

Claim (Index 23):
A method of forming a panel comprising:\n a) providing a roll of a first sheet material; b) feeding the first sheet material through a lamination station in a first machine direction; c) providing a roll of a second sheet material comprising a print layer comprising a film having a grain design printed thereon, the grain design pattern having a grain direction in a first across-machine direction; d) feeding the second sheet material through the lamination station in the first machine direction; e) laminating, using the lamination station, the second sheet material to the first sheet material to form a multi-layer sheet in which the grain design pattern is visible; and f) cutting the multi-layer sheet into a plurality of panels using a cutting station, each of the panels having a length in the first across-machine direction and a width in the first machine-direction, the length of the panel being greater than the width.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7037
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14152253', '15354338', '10782349', '11876314', '15150571']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8857446848927206
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879663392367703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8459668503271256
- Mean Citation Score: 154.96265999999997
- Max Citation Score: 160.74649
- Similarity Product: 99.7907532487357

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

Dataset: test