PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16092790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "569000"]

Abstract:
There are provided reactive metal powder in-flight heat treatment processes. For example, such processes comprise providing a reactive metal powder; and contacting the reactive metal powder with at least one additive gas while carrying out said in-flight heat treatment process, thereby obtaining a raw reactive metal powder.

Claim (Index 1):
A reactive metal powder in-flight heat treatment process comprising:\n contacting a reactive metal powder with an in-flight heat treatment process gas mixture comprising (i) at least one in-flight heat treatment process gas and (ii) at least one additive gas that is present at a concentration of less than 1000 ppm in said mixture, while carrying out said in-flight heat treatment process to obtain a raw reactive metal powder; and forming, with said at least one additive gas, a surface layer on said raw reactive metal powder, said raw reactive metal powder with said surface layer thereon, comprises less than 1000 ppm of at least one element from said at least one additive gas, wherein said surface layer comprises a first layer and a second layer, said first layer comprising atoms of said heated reactive metal source with atoms and/or molecules of said at least one additive gas, said first layer being a depletion layer deeper and thicker than said second layer, said second layer being a native oxide layer, and wherein a particle size distribution of about 10 to about 53 \u03bcm of said raw reactive metal powder with said surface layer thereon has a flowability less than 40 s, measured according to ASTM B213.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 179.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44444
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13025231', '15449081', '12436629', '15314372', '11584747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7840626555195659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4989656185814886
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7555529518257581
- Mean Citation Score: 188.055676
- Max Citation Score: 198.74164
- Similarity Product: 135.24161904826406

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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