PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["425", "378200"]

Abstract:
A system for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that is adapted for providing a polymer melt and dividing the polymer melt into a plurality of streams (e.g., at least six or eight streams) to increase a surface area of the polymer melt. The plurality of streams is then exposed to a pressure that is below approximately 5 millibars. The streams are then recombined into a single polymer stream and formed into bulked continuous carpet filament. In various embodiments, an extruder, such as a multi-screw extruder, is used to divide the polymer melt into the plurality of streams.

Claim (Index 24):
The system of  claim 21 , further comprising an intrinsic viscosity management system adapted to determine an intrinsic viscosity of the single polymer stream, and in response to determining the viscosity, adjusting the chamber pressure until the single polymer stream comprises a desired intrinsic viscosity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81356
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16220733', '16402583', '15204645', '15419955', '16041442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8126081110142787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6381250479147058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7951598047043215
- Mean Citation Score: 489.51269400000007
- Max Citation Score: 537.9277
- Similarity Product: 443.1314195907354

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

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