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 13):
A method of roll printing a grain design onto a sheet material, the method comprising:\n a) providing a roll of the sheet material; b) feeding the sheet material through a printing station in a machine direction, the printing station comprising an ink reservoir and an engraved cylinder, the engraved cylinder rotatable about a cylinder axis that is oriented in an across-machine direction that is orthogonal to the machine direction, the engraved cylinder comprising a plurality of cells arranged in a pattern that corresponds to the grain design, the cells comprising a plurality of first cells that collectively define an engraved line feature extending axially along a surface of the engraved cylinder; and c) the cells of the engraved cylinder transferring ink from the ink well to a surface of the sheet material to create the grain design on the surface of the sheet material, the engraved line feature creating an elongated striation of the grain design that extends across the surface of the sheet material in the across-machine direction, and wherein the elongated striation has a length measured in the across-machine direction and the sheet material has a width measured in the across-machine direction, the length of the elongated striation being at least one-half of the width of the sheet material.

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): 0.8853518687746192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916265964546481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8459793415426222
- Mean Citation Score: 154.96265999999997
- Max Citation Score: 160.74649
- Similarity Product: 96.20279061642408

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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