PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["235", "454000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are acetate tow bands comprising identification fibers made of cellulose acetate which exhibit surface markings in a repeated pattern along the length of the identification fibers. The identification fibers can be incorporated into an acetate tow band. The surface markings and repeated pattern can be representative of a bale identifier. The identification fibers can be recovered from a cigarette filter, the repeated pattern decoded, and supply chain information associated with the acetate tow band used to make the cigarette filter can be obtained.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the separating comprises physically segregating the identification fibers from the cigarette filter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83673
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15826843', '15225872', '14748865', '15876240', '15460388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7401166592662181
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5510097923954188
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7212059725791382
- Mean Citation Score: 489.08162
- Max Citation Score: 525.1272
- Similarity Product: 327.98658925924303

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