PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030691
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["427", "336000"]

Abstract:
A friction pad that is easily exchangeable, non-fouling to its surroundings, and soft to bare skin includes a support sheet, a soft bonding layer, and a traction layer. Methods of making and using such a friction pad are provided that include applying materials serially in a liquid state to the support sheet.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a friction pad, comprising:\n mixing water, corn starch and acrylic stucco into a combination of materials; curing the mixed combination of materials; spraying the cured combination of materials onto a flexible support sheet on a top side of the flexible support sheet opposite an adhesive side of the flexible support sheet, the adhesive side of the flexible support sheet having an adhesive; soaking the flexible support sheet with the sprayed combination of materials in salt water for at least 12 hours; melting an oil and wax combination; applying the oil and wax combination to the flexible support sheet onto the sprayed combination of materials; and soaking the flexible support sheet with the sprayed combination of materials and the applied oil and wax combination in salt water for at least 12 hours to produce the friction pad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48718
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15478192', '11470740', '13373322', '11590638', '11328974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7364369256920437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5181633171892285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7146095648417622
- Mean Citation Score: 160.97159380000005
- Max Citation Score: 309.2599
- Similarity Product: 286.0111619068265

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