PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["428", "141000"]

Abstract:
Presented herein are articles and methods relating to manufactured superhydrophobic, superoleophobic, and/or supermetallophobic surfaces with macro-scale features (macro features) configured to induce controlled asymmetry in a liquid film produced by impinging phase (e.g., impinging droplet(s)) onto the surface, thereby further reducing the contact time between an impinging liquid and the surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A manufactured article comprising a surface that is one or more of the following:\n (a) a superhydrophobic surface, (b) a superoleophobic surface, and/or (c) a supermetallophobic surface,\n wherein said surface comprises one or more types of macro features, said one or more types of macro features comprising one or more members selected from the following:\n (i) spaced-apart discrete groups of ridges, wherein each group of ridges comprises a plurality of ridges, said ridges being angled with respect to each other and/or said ridges intersecting each other and/or two or more of said ridges terminating at a common point; \n (ii) spaced-apart discrete groups of grooves, wherein each group of grooves comprises a plurality of grooves, said grooves being angled with respect to each other and/or said grooves intersecting each other and/or two or more of said grooves terminating at a common point; \n (iii) a pattern of intersecting ridges, wherein said pattern comprises spaced-apart intersections of ridges; \n (iv) a pattern of intersecting grooves, wherein said pattern comprises spaced-apart intersections of grooves; \n (v) a pattern of ridges and grooves that intersect with each other; \n (vi) spaced-apart discrete groups of features, each of said groups comprising one or more ridges and one or more grooves; \n (vii) a plurality of spaced-apart hybrid ridge-groove features, each of said ridge-groove features comprising a ridge having a groove running along its length, said groove laying between the two edges of the ridge; and \n (viii) a plurality of spaced-apart hybrid groove-ridge features, each of said groove-ridge features comprising a groove having a ridge running along its length, said ridge laying between the two edges of the groove.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34043
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14302112', '13300022', '13586945', '13741898', '12599465']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8885124754924353
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5286583138827194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8525270593314637
- Mean Citation Score: 255.985582
- Max Citation Score: 361.3249
- Similarity Product: 264.2597053647816

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

Dataset: test