PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057621
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["427", "376100"]

Abstract:
This application features a method of forming a nanoporous layer. The method includes steps of reducing metal ions in a reverse micelle phase composition to form nanoparticles, removing surfactant from the composition to form clusters of the nanoparticles, dispensing the composition including the nanoparticle clusters dispersed in a liquid on a substrate, and drying to form the nanoporous layer. The nanoporous layer includes nanoparticles deposited to form a three dimensional network of irregularly shaped bodies. The nanoporous layer also includes a three dimensional network of intercluster spaces that are not occoupied by the three dimensional network of irregularly shaped bodies.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a nanoporous layer, the method comprising:\n providing a liquid composition comprising a surfactant and metal ions, wherein the surfactant is in a reverse micelle phase defining hydrophilic spaces; adding a reducing agent to the liquid composition to cause reduction of at least part of the metal ions to form nanoparticles, which provides a first colloid, wherein at least part of the nanoparticles are inside at least some of the hydrophilic spaces; and removing the surfactant from the first colloid to form a second colloid, wherein removing the surfactant causes at least part of the nanoparticles get together and form a number of clusters, wherein each cluster has an irregularly shaped body comprising a number of nanoparticles having a generally oval or spherical shape with a length ranging between about 2 nm and about 5 nm, subsequently, adjusting a concentration of the nanoparticles in the second colloid to provide a colloid composition such that the nanoparticles contained in the colloid composition are in an amount between about 0.01 wt % and about 2 wt % with reference to the total weight of the colloid composition; dispensing the colloid composition over a substrate; and subjecting the dispensed colloid composition to drying to form a nanoporous layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98148
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15844484', '15844515', '15844479', '15844507', '15845668']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.846205692700518
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6051990170300221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8221050251334685
- Mean Citation Score: 519.3836299999998
- Max Citation Score: 538.19354
- Similarity Product: 465.1289253506256

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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