PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16366582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "146000"]

Abstract:
Methods for producing a stretch film are provided, including disposing one or more extruders in fluid communication with a stock of virgin resin; heating the virgin resin to a molten state; delivering the molten virgin resin to a die; and extruding the molten virgin resin through the die onto a casting roll, thereby creating a cast stretch film. Methods for delivering the molten virgin resin onto a casting roll of varying sizes and set temperatures; and of moving a resulting film onto a secondary chill roll of varying sizes and set temperatures, are also provided. Finally, methods for moving the film from either the casting roll or the secondary chill roll onto a slitting assembly, dividing the film using one more interior or exterior slits, and then capturing and gathering the trim waste but not reintroducing the trim waste back into the production process are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 16 , further comprising using said slitting assembly to form one or more exterior slits, thereby creating waste film that is not recycled back into the production process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16216
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11385771', '12805964', '12094290', '14212840', '10591058']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7684567769734999
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5081195671097029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7424230559871202
- Mean Citation Score: 172.20252
- Max Citation Score: 178.96936000000005
- Similarity Product: 91.77900416022304

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