PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217665
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "039000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit containing a special recording material and circuitry configured to control the image forming unit to form a hardly visible image on a recording medium with the special recording material. The hardly visible image is formed of a halftone dot image comprising isolated dots in a number smaller than that of isolated dots forming a visible image having the same image area ratio as the hardly visible image.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming apparatus of  claim 12 ,\n wherein a two-dimensional code image comprising the hardly visible image formed with the infrared absorbing toner and another two-dimensional code image comprising a solid image of the color toner forming the visible image are superimposed on one another, wherein the solid image of the color toner forming the visible image has an absorbance less than 0.05 in a range of from 800 to 900 nm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16333892', '13043116', '14191822', '13690408', '12263512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7968273564325559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4656501529456034
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7637096360838607
- Mean Citation Score: 163.406302
- Max Citation Score: 174.27965
- Similarity Product: 128.57884120329322

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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