PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015753
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["424", "426000"]

Abstract:
A self-healing polymeric material includes a polymeric matrix material, a plurality of monomer mixture microcapsules dispersed in the polymeric matrix material, and a plurality of light generating microcapsules dispersed in the polymeric matrix material. Each monomer mixture microcapsule encapsulates a mixture of materials that includes monomers and a photoinitiator. Each light generating microcapsule encapsulates multiple reactants that undergo a chemiluminescent reaction. The chemiluminescent reaction generates a photon having a wavelength within a particular emission range that is consistent with an absorption range of the photoinitiator.

Claim (Index 17):
An in-situ light generation process comprising:\n forming an article of manufacture that includes a self-healing polymeric material, the self-healing polymeric material comprising:\n a polymeric matrix material; \n a plurality of monomer mixture microcapsules dispersed in the polymeric matrix material, each monomer mixture microcapsule of the plurality of monomer mixture microcapsules encapsulating a mixture of materials that includes monomers and a photoinitiator; and \n a plurality of light generating microcapsules dispersed in the polymeric matrix material, each light generating microcapsule of the plurality of light generating microcapsules encapsulating multiple reactants that undergo a chemiluminescent reaction, the chemiluminescent reaction generating a photon having a wavelength within a particular emission range that is consistent with an absorption range of the photoinitiator; and \n exposing the article of manufacture to an environment that results in formation of a crack in the polymeric matrix material, the crack causing microcapsule rupture of a monomer mixture microcapsule of the plurality of monomer mixture microcapsules, the microcapsule rupture resulting in migration of the mixture of materials into the crack, wherein the chemiluminescent reaction within the light generating microcapsule generates sufficient light to cause the photoinitiator to initiate a polymerization reaction of the monomers within the crack, the polymerization reaction resulting in formation of a polymeric material that seals the crack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97826
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15631165', '15618589', '15603686', '15590676', '13083819']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7453445047151575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6252179827098053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7333318525146222
- Mean Citation Score: 376.821906
- Max Citation Score: 578.8818
- Similarity Product: 546.0409198756456

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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