PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859682
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["264", "002700"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for making reflective surfaces within optically transmissive materials. The method includes steps of providing a blade having a sharp cutting edge, penetrating an optically transmissive material with the cutting edge to a predetermined penetration depth and moving the blade relative to the transmissive material to produce a continuous slit with reflective walls. The apparatus includes a material feeding mechanism configured to feed a flexible sheet in predefined stepped increments, a slitting blade with a surface portion having a root mean square surface profile roughness parameter below 100 nanometers, and a linear drive operatively associated with the slitting blade to reciprocally move the slitting blade perpendicular to a feed direction of the flexible sheet, where a stepped feed operation of the material feeding mechanism is alternating with a reciprocal operation of the linear drive.

Claim (Index 19):
The apparatus of  claim 16 , comprising a heating element configured to heat a portion of the flexible sheet to an elevated temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14324210', '14324060', '13855665', '15175952', '15458006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8234636704223857
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5463342807349009
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7957507314536372
- Mean Citation Score: 355.68686
- Max Citation Score: 420.80453
- Similarity Product: 330.8198365215337

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

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