PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["423", "344000"]

Abstract:
The method described herein may be characterized as reacting uranium dioxide with carbon to produce uranium carbide, and, reacting the uranium carbide with a silane, a silicon halide, a siloxane, or combinations thereof, and excess hydrogen to produce uranium silicide.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for producing a uranium silicide nuclear fuel comprising a reaction represented by:\n UF 6 +H 2 +2H 2 O\u2192UO 2 +6HF; \u2003\u2003(1) (2) one or both of\n UO 2 +3C\u2192UC+2CO and \u2003\u2003(i) \n UO 2 +2C\u2192UC+CO 2 ; \u2003\u2003(ii) \n and,\n 3UC+one of 2SiX 4  or Si 2 O+2X 2 \u2192U 3 Si 2 +3CX 4 , \u2003\u2003(3) \n wherein X is selected from the group consisting of H, Cl, F, Br, and I and combinations thereof

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51613
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12465729', '13567243', '10761432', '13638713', '13606558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7454584438858233
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922398263165415
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7201365821288951
- Mean Citation Score: 186.246194
- Max Citation Score: 235.8395
- Similarity Product: 177.98854978445172

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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