PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868095
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["131", "290000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a method of manufacturing a pouched, oral tobacco product including a porous membrane having a liner and an inner filling material. The inner filling material includes loose, fibrous tobacco material and tobacco beads formed from tobacco fines and dust which are too small to be included in traditional pouched tobacco products. The tobacco beads are extruded and spheronized.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the tobacco beads comprise a majority amount of tobacco fines having a particle size of less than about 60 mesh, the tobacco fines being dispersed uniformly throughout the entirety of each tobacco bead, the tobacco beads having a moisture content of about 0.5% to about 25%, and the tobacco beads included in an amount of about 10% to about 95% by weight based on the weight of the pouched, oral tobacco product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51163
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12748043', '15346750', '13085156', '12642399', '11415084']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7987441184162203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5759444272372336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7764641492983216
- Mean Citation Score: 264.981556
- Max Citation Score: 386.2088
- Similarity Product: 303.59437547588345

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

Dataset: test