PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["607", "114000"]

Abstract:
Polymers, hydrogels, and thermochromic agents, including products embodying them, methods of using them, and processes for making them. In certain embodiments, temperature therapy packs which utilize thermochromic agents integrated into solid, semi-solid, or liquid hydrogels. In preferred (but optional) embodiments, the thermochromic agents are integrated into the composition used as the temperature exchange material of the therapy pack. In certain other embodiments, methods of using the thermochromic integrated temperature exchange materials, or processes for manufacturing such thermochromic integrated temperature exchange materials and/or methods or processes for manufacturing or using thermal packs embodying such materials. In certain particularly preferred embodiments, novel polymer compositions and/or processes for making polymers, which improve product durability or longevity and/or which improve use cycles or usage times.

Claim (Index 3):
A temperature therapy pack for providing hot and cold temperature therapy to a body part, and which displays color to indicate different therapy pack temperatures, comprising:\n a visually transparent temperature therapy pack enclosure; a first thermochromic agent; a second thermochromic agent; a pack fill material being combined with said first and said second thermochromic agents to collectively comprise a reversible thermochromic, thermal exchange material, said reversible thermochromic, thermal exchange material being enclosed in said visually transparent temperature therapy pack enclosure; said temperature therapy pack being so configured such that when it is heated or cooled, said thermal exchange material retains heat or cold, respectively, so that said temperature therapy pack can be applied to a body part of a user to provide hot or cold temperature therapy; and said first and said second thermochromic agents being particularly configured and selected such that when said thermal exchange material of said temperature therapy pack is measurable at a temperature within a temperature range T1, said temperature therapy pack displays a first color A; when said thermal exchange material of said temperature therapy pack is measurable at a temperature above said temperature range T1, said temperature therapy pack displays a second color B; and when said thermal exchange material of said temperature therapy pack is measurable at a temperature below said temperature range T1, said temperature therapy pack displays a third color C; and wherein one of said first, second, or third colors A, B, or C respectively is a color obtained through the spectral combination of the other two colors, such that three temperature therapy pack display colors are obtained utilizing only two thermochromic agents; and wherein said thermal exchange material comprises, by mass fraction: a polymer in the amount of approximately 5%-40%; said first thermochromic agent in the amount of approximately 1%-3.5%; said second thermochromic agent in the amount of approximately 1%-3.5%; a dispersing agent in the amount of approximately 1.5%-33%; a dispersing auxiliary in the amount of approximately 1.5%-35%; a solvent in the amount of approximately 5%-30%; and wherein said polymer comprises at least one of the following components: polyacrylic acid polymer, natural polymer, and cellulose derivatives.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2381
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11796615', '14571318', '14225503', '15722022', '12504553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6651437497473393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5060430629446089
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6492336810670662
- Mean Citation Score: 206.244824
- Max Citation Score: 216.57622
- Similarity Product: 114.08280796394112

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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