PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914224
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["428", "408000"]

Abstract:
A continuous process for producing a surface-metalized polymer article, comprising: (a) continuously immersing a polymer article into a graphene dispersion comprising multiple graphene sheets dispersed in a liquid medium for a period of immersion time and then retreating the polymer article from the dispersion, enabling deposition of graphene sheets onto a surface of the polymer article to form a graphene-attached polymer article; (b) continuously moving the graphene-attached polymer article into a drying or heating zone to enable bonding of graphene sheets to said surface to form a graphene-covered polymer article; and (c) continuously moving the graphene-covered polymer article into a metallization zone where a layer of a metal is chemically, physically, electrochemically or electrolytically deposited onto a surface of the graphene-covered polymer article to form the surface-metalized polymer article. Step (a) may be preceded by a surface treatment of the polymer article.

Claim (Index 11):
The process of  claim 1 , wherein said graphene dispersion comprises multiple graphene sheets dispersed in a liquid medium wherein said multiple graphene sheets contain single-layer or few-layer graphene sheets selected from a pristine graphene material having essentially zero % of non-carbon elements, or a non-pristine graphene material having 0.001% to 25% by weight of non-carbon elements wherein said non-pristine graphene is selected from graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene fluoride, graphene chloride, graphene bromide, graphene iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene, doped graphene, chemically functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof and said graphene dispersion further contains one or multiple species selected from (i) an adhesive resin dissolved or dispersed in said liquid medium, wherein an adhesive-to-graphene weight ratio is from 1/5000 to 1/10; (ii) an etchant selected from an add, an oxidizer, a metal salt, or a combination thereof; (iii) nanoscaled particles or coating of a catalytic metal, having a diameter or thickness from 0.5 nm to 100 nm, selected from cobalt, nickel, copper, iron, manganese, tin, zinc, lead, bismuth, silver, gold, palladium, platinum, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof and (iv) combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27143
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15365049', '14998474', '15416850', '14998672', '14121487']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8951037512296597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4990627908061046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8554996551873042
- Mean Citation Score: 253.69846800000005
- Max Citation Score: 255.30887
- Similarity Product: 206.8637492009485

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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