PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954687
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["383", "109000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a multilayer bag with one or more embossed layers of polymeric film and a method to form the same. The embossed layers may provide improved shock resistance, tear resistance, and allow the bag to easily stretch and expand. Each layer of the polymeric bag may be embossed separately and then combined into a multilayer web. For certain embodiments, only one layer of the multilayer bag may be embossed. The individual layers may be formed from opposing sides of a collapsed tube of polymeric film or be formed from two distinct collapsed tubes of polymeric film. The polymeric bag may be a drawstring trash bag with the embossed pattern only extending a partial height of the bag.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of forming a multilayer polymeric bag comprising:\n embossing a first web of continuous film with a first embossed pattern, the first embossed pattern comprising a plurality of embossed regions, each embossed region separated by a continuous unembossed arrangement and comprising a plurality of embosses of varying length, the first web having only a single layer, the first web having a machine direction and a cross direction, the first web having a first edge opposite from a second edge in the cross direction, the first web having a first web width extending in the cross direction, after the first web is embossed, placing a second web of continuous film over the first web, the second web having only a single layer of smooth unembossed and un-stretched film, the second web having a machine direction and a cross direction, the second web having a first edge opposite from a second edge in the cross direction, the second web having a second web width extending in the cross direction, overlaying the first web with the second web with the first edges of the first and second webs adjacent to each other and the second edges of the first and second webs adjacent to each other, folding the overlaid first and second webs in half so that a centerline in the machine direction of both webs generally corresponds with the fold formed in the first and second webs to form first and second folded webs, and converting the first and second folded webs into bags.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07937
- Patent Class: 383.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15397821', '15397863', '14645533', '11720060', '14969259']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7734635243693219
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5210538721349707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7482225591458868
- Mean Citation Score: 256.758418
- Max Citation Score: 363.19055
- Similarity Product: 264.77854324613213

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

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