PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["264", "136000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming fiber-reinforced composites. The method includes stabilizing two or more carbon fibers tows together (a) with a stabilizing resin and (b) in-line with a commercial carbon fiber production process to form a semi-finished tape; and impregnating the semi-finished tape with a matrix resin in a process offline of the carbon fiber production process to form a prepreg.

Claim (Index 25):
A method comprising:\n providing a tow band including first one or more carbon fiber tows and second one or more carbon fiber tows, the first one or more carbon fiber tows are horizontally spaced from the second one or more carbon fiber tows; vertically separating the first one or more carbon fiber tows and the second one or more carbon fiber tows of the tow band onto first and second elevations, respectively, to form a first horizontal gap on the first elevation and a second horizontal gap on the second elevation, the second one or more carbon fiber tows vertically aligned with the first horizontal gap, and the first one or more carbon fiber tows vertically aligned with the second horizontal gap; spreading the first one or more carbon fiber tows at the first elevation; and stabilizing the first one or more carbon fiber tows together at the first elevation with a stabilizing resin to form a first semi-finished tape from the first one or more carbon fiber tows.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.675
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15345872', '15994849', '11287140', '14136088', '14135866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7946574970954031
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874406774292687
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7639358151287896
- Mean Citation Score: 181.476942
- Max Citation Score: 183.33046
- Similarity Product: 118.37785081148384

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

Dataset: test