PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020684
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["119", "171000"]

Abstract:
Animal litter having up to a sixty percent reduction in bulk density can be produced by combining flat-shaped cellulosic materials and sodium bentonite clay. Not only is the resulting litter lighter, but it also maintains a high clump strength as compared to clay-based animal litters that contain greater than ninety percent by weight sodium bentonite clay.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of making composite particles having a cellulosic material component and a sodium bentonite component comprising:\n providing flat-shaped cellulosic particles having a mean particle size ranging from 0.2-3 mm; providing powdered sodium bentonite particles having a mean particle size less than 0.25 mm, wherein the ratio of cellulosic material to sodium bentonite is in the range of 1:4 to 4:1; using a high shear agglomeration process to mix the cellulosic particles and the sodium bentonite particles to form composite particles having a mean particle size in the range of 0.4-4 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.18
- Patent Class: 119.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14661985', '13443695', '15409308', '11872182', '11870967']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7363896741744435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4866320282750622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7114139095845053
- Mean Citation Score: 242.326766
- Max Citation Score: 267.8341
- Similarity Product: 260.39434016208054

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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