PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["065", "109000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for modifying the shape of a hollow structure. The method may comprise steps of providing a hollow structure having a cross-section with first and second diameters defining a first aspect ratio; heating at least a part of the hollow structure to at least its glass transition temperature, forming a malleable hollow structure; maintaining a positive pressure inside the malleable hollow structure to form a pressurized hollow structure; and pressing against a first side and an opposed second side of a heated part of the pressurized hollow structure, forming a hollow tabular structure having first and second opposed generally flat faces and a second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the positive pressure inside the hollow malleable structure is maintained by blowing air into the hollow malleable structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15007329', '13527011', '14925387', '12254570', '13216714']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7098480430568768
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5573633801360712
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6945995767647962
- Mean Citation Score: 160.9165584
- Max Citation Score: 345.41003
- Similarity Product: 302.80089445878866

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

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