PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013533
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["426", "396000"]

Abstract:
Methods of covering an animal feed product involve depositing in an open end of a container an animal feed. Placing a cover on an exposed surface of the feed at the open end of the container, where the cover includes a flowable coating arranged on one side of a flexible film and a rigid or semi-rigid layer bound to an opposite side of the film. The exposed surface of the feed comprises irregular surface structures due to feed components positioned at the exposed surface. A central portion of the flexible film of the placed cover conforms to the irregular surface structures at the exposed surface of the feed upon the flowable coating reaching a temperature of at least about 125° F.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the flexible film comprises a plurality of radial slits or notches arranged along an outer circumference, the radial slits or notches adapted to facilitate the flexible film conforming to the exposed surface of the feed at an outer circumference of the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13559
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14815488', '14364720', '14778893', '14402717', '10070870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6777677399873895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5444598922988695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6644369552185375
- Mean Citation Score: 173.41299399999997
- Max Citation Score: 369.92172
- Similarity Product: 299.805203188076

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

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