PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["235", "454000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are acetate tow bands comprising identification fibers made of cellulose acetate which exhibit surface markings in a repeated pattern along the length of the identification fibers. The identification fibers can be incorporated into an acetate tow band. The surface markings and repeated pattern can be representative of a bale identifier. The identification fibers can be recovered from a cigarette filter, the repeated pattern decoded, and supply chain information associated with the acetate tow band used to make the cigarette filter can be obtained.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of producing an acetate tow band comprising fibers, wherein the fibers comprise standard fibers and identification fibers, wherein the standard fibers and identification fibers comprise cellulose acetate, wherein the method comprises:\n (a) obtaining the identification fibers; (b) producing the standard fibers on a first fiber production process; and (c) combining the identification fibers and the standard fibers into the acetate tow band, wherein a ratio of a size of the identification fibers to a size of the standard fibers (dpf ID fibers :dpf STD fibers ) is 1.5:1 or greater, wherein the identification fibers comprise one or more taggant surface markings, wherein the taggant surface markings form a repeated pattern along a length of the identification fibers, and wherein the taggant surface markings and the repeated pattern are representative of a bale identifier of the acetate tow band.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83673
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15826843', '15225872', '14748865', '15876240', '15460388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7113802461002157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5642507661364293
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6966672981038371
- Mean Citation Score: 489.08162
- Max Citation Score: 525.1272
- Similarity Product: 397.3282158496857

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

Dataset: test