PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027701
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["424", "449000"]

Abstract:
Dermal and transdermal patches (also called “applicators”) for delivering treatment material. In certain aspects, a treatment patch for applying treatment material to the skin of living beings, for example, a mammal or animal, including, but not limited to human beings. In at least some embodiments, such a patch includes a main body made up of a plurality of interconnected subunit patches with open space between patches. Adjacent patches are connected with one, two, three or more connectors connected to each adjacent patch and extending between them. The connectors can be of the same size and thickness as the interconnected patches (often herein “subunit patches”). In size, the connectors can be of the same length, width, height and area as the patches. The patches can all be the same, or different patches can be used as parts of the same main body.

Claim (Index 14):
An applicator for dermal or transdermal application of treatment material, the applicator comprising:\n a plurality of sub-unit patches, each sub-unit patch of the plurality of patches having a common size and geometric shape, the plurality of sub-unit patches arranged in a regular array; a plurality of connectors positioned between and connecting each of the sub-unit patches to adjacent sub-unit patches in the regular array, the plurality of connectors comprising flexible material, the flexible connectors allowing adjacent sub-unit patches to be positioned adjacent each other or separated from each other; adhesive material positioned on at least one sub-unit patch and/or at least one connector; and a release liner positioned over the plurality of sub-unit patches and the plurality of connectors, covering at least the adhesive material; each sub-unit patch for the application of treatment material to skin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12920058', '15025683', '15534081', '14004889', '10699582']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7072159492769932
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900710100554881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6855014553548427
- Mean Citation Score: 178.537532
- Max Citation Score: 189.55528
- Similarity Product: 126.31248963100435

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

Dataset: test