PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742661
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["210", "321870"]

Abstract:
A thermoplastic blended potting resin, a blended resin potted membrane, a membrane separation module, a fluid separation device, a method of making and a method of using the membrane separation module and the fluid separation device are described herein. The blended thermoplastic potting resin comprises at least one polar membrane having two end regions and a middle region; and a blended resin comprising a non-polar thermoplastic polymer and a polar thermoplastic polymer; wherein at least one of the two ends regions is coated with the blended potting resin to form a fluid-tight seal between the end regions and the open middle region, and wherein the polar thermoplastic polymer is 1% or greater by weight of blended resin.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of making a fluid separation device, the method comprising:\n (a) providing at least one polar membrane having a first end region, a second end region, and a middle region; (b) contacting the at least one of the two end regions of the at least one polar membrane with an extrusion of molten blended resin comprising a non-polar thermoplastic polymer and a polar thermoplastic polymer,\n wherein the molten blended resin is heated sufficiently above its melting point such that the molten blended resin flows around the at least one polar membrane, and \n wherein the polar thermoplastic polymer is 1% or greater by weight of the molten blended resin; \n (c) cooling the molten blended resin to form a blended resin potted membrane comprising two potted ends; (d) inserting the blended resin potted membrane comprising two potted ends into a housing; and (e) applying heat to the housing sufficient to seal the two potted ends to the housing, and wherein the seal between the blended potted membrane and the housing is also a fluid-tight seal between the two end regions and the middle region of the blended resin potted membrane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26786
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13964335', '13964321', '13065183', '13964279', '13964260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7882486233342186
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.500451588832322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759468919884029
- Mean Citation Score: 220.9027
- Max Citation Score: 223.9824
- Similarity Product: 136.32429086322784

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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