PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["405", "157000"]

Abstract:
A new use for Litz wire is described. Litz wire is used as “bare” tracer wire, as tracer wire within known woven polyester or aramid fiber pull tape and as tracer wire within a known marker tape. Litz marker tape is described which is a novel type of marker tape is wherein Litz wire is incorporated into the structure of conventional marker tape so that the marker tape may be remotely located and mapped once it has been buried underground. In addition a method is disclosed for determining the proper size of an individual strand of wire in a Litz wire bundle which is going to be used as Litz pull tape or as Litz marker tape. In addition a method of emplacing Litz wire tracer wire or marker tape using a horizontal boring machine is disclosed.

Claim (Index 6):
A marker tape assembly comprising:\n a first layer with a first predetermined width and with an indefinite length comprising a colored polyethylene or other moisture or soil resistant synthetic plastic tape with said first layer having an upper and a lower surface; a substantially straight, open channel with a predetermined cross-section formed on said upper surface of said first layer with said channel running along the length of said first layer; a Litz wire tracer wire of indefinite length and having a cross-section less than said predetermined cross-section positioned within and running along said channel; a second layer with a second predetermined width and with an indefinite length comprising a colored polyethylene or other moisture or soil resistant synthetic plastic tape with said second layer also having an upper and a lower surface; the lower surface of said second layer being laminated to the upper surface of said first layer in order to close said open channel and seal said Litz wire within said marker tape assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07143
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13079122', '12762279', '11269447', '15820255', '14693748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7420857612444227
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5016477965260349
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718041964772584
- Mean Citation Score: 188.689048
- Max Citation Score: 220.79254
- Similarity Product: 137.94307810390353

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

Dataset: test