PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["008", "636000"]

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to a method for changing the color of a textile material to obtain a vintage and/or worn appearance comprising the steps of contacting the fabric textile material with a nitrate salt, activating the nitrate salt by the addition of an acid catalyst until the desired color change is achieved.

Claim (Index 20):
The method according to  claim 20 , wherein a \u0394L value between the textile material before step (a) and after step (c) is greater than 2, wherein L refers to lightness as defined by CIE 1976 Lab color space, and wherein the Lab color space lightness value (L) of the fabric after step (c) is preferably from 20 to 60.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14343925', '14855413', '10591588', '10568950', '16087229']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.750397486577326
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5173188705211087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7270896249717043
- Mean Citation Score: 149.352326
- Max Citation Score: 152.14731
- Similarity Product: 74.87033554042786

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