PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16230403
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["156", "060000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for bonding polymeric parts are disclosed. Specifically, in one embodiment, the polymeric parts are bonded by plastically deforming them against each other while they are below the glass transition temperatures.

Claim (Index 22):
The apparatus of  claim 20 , wherein the pressing element is constructed and arranged to apply a substantially plane strain plastic deformation to the first part and the second part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23333
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15312446', '15213926', '14248711', '13458222', '12465570']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8886510282689037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5632172953432183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8561076549763352
- Mean Citation Score: 160.589541
- Max Citation Score: 335.5751
- Similarity Product: 215.52622874124648

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