PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188715
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["428", "001200"]

Abstract:
Ink-jet printable compositions including nanoparticles capped with a protective layer of hydrocarbon chains and a single solvent exhibiting a single evaporation rate and having a specifically defined viscosity and surface tension that result in uniform and printable alignment layers for liquid crystal materials. Patterned liquid crystal-containing cells are also disclosed including one or more layers including the same or different nanoparticles capped with a protective layer of hydrocarbon chains printed on a surface of a substrate or even another nanoparticle-containing layer. Methods for producing the cells are also disclosed, including the step of printing a pattern on one or more portions of a cell surface utilizing a composition comprising the capped nanoparticles. Devices including the cells are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A printed, patterned liquid crystal device, comprising:\n at least two substantially transparent substrates; a substantially transparent conductive electrode layer operatively connected to each substrate; optionally an alignment layer located on at least one of the conductive electrode layers; a printed layer located on a portion of one or more of the electrode layer and/or the alignment layer, and the printed layer derived from a composition comprising a nanoparticle capped with a protective layer of hydrocarbon chain and a solvent, wherein an electro-active liquid crystal material is present between the at least two substantially transparent substrates and is in contact with at least the printed layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87879
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14783238', '12597235', '12231595', '10553326', '14621837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.887248022068597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5576958930737665
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.854292809169114
- Mean Citation Score: 270.209738
- Max Citation Score: 460.76974
- Similarity Product: 335.93218951955674

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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