PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953532
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["156", "308200"]

Abstract:
Herein are disclosed apparatus and methods for impinging heated fluids onto the surfaces of substrates to heat the surfaces of the substrates so as to facilitate melt-bonding the substrates to each other to form a laminate. Also are disclosed are laminates in which a fibrous web is bonded to a substrate in a surface-bonded manner and/or is bonded in a loft-retaining manner. The substrate may comprise protrusions on the surface of the substrate opposite the surface that is bonded to the fibrous web.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of bonding at least one fibrous web to at least one substrate, comprising:\n impinging heated fluid onto a first major surface of a moving fibrous web; impinging heated fluid onto the first major surface of a moving substrate; and, contacting the first major surface of the fibrous web with the first major surface of the substrate so that the first major surface of the fibrous web is melt-bonded to the first major surface of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79167
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12974329', '14796122', '13160036', '14623226', '14860184']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9044813771136072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072942099927189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8647626604015184
- Mean Citation Score: 253.863252
- Max Citation Score: 298.0191700000001
- Similarity Product: 233.91071975522885

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

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