PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106901
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["429", "246000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to new, improved or modified polymer materials, membranes, substrates, and the like and to new, improved or modified methods for permanently modifying the physical and/or chemical nature of surfaces of the polymer substrate for a variety of end uses or applications. For example, one improved method uses a carbene and/or nitrene modifier to chemically modify a functionalized polymer to form a chemical species which can chemically react with the surface of a polymer substrate and alter its chemical reactivity. Such method may involve an insertion mechanism to modify the polymer substrate to increase or decrease its surface energy, polarity, hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity, oleophilicity or oleophobicity, and/or the like in order to improve the compatibility of the polymer substrate with, for example, coatings, materials, adjoining layers, and/or the like. Furthermore, this invention can be used to produce chemically modified membranes, fibers, hollow fibers, textiles, and the like, for example, to produce polyolefin microporous battery separators or membranes having improved hydrophilicity or wettability, having crosslinking in the polyolefin which can improve the high temperature stability, and/or the like.

Claim (Index 2):
The modified substrate according to  claim 1  further comprising a coating overlaying the modified functionalized polymer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23656
- Patent Class: 429.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13551883', '14157561', '15695348', '13129697', '14710951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.849589160706908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5700654561729562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8216367902535129
- Mean Citation Score: 290.5025
- Max Citation Score: 490.89194
- Similarity Product: 359.88475909525266

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

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