PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130818
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["524", "612000"]

Abstract:
A titanium dioxide pigment composition comprising a plurality of titanium dioxide particles and a polymer that is associated with the titanium dioxide particles and becomes associated with latex particles in an aqueous based coating formulation to inhibit agglomeration of the titanium dioxide particles while the coating formulation dries is provided. The polymer comprises a water soluble polymer backbone, at least one functional group that is attached to the polymer backbone and has an affinity for titanium dioxide, and at least one hydrophobic functional group that is attached to the polymer backbone and has an affinity for latex. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a titanium dioxide pigment composition.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of manufacturing a titanium dioxide pigment composition, comprising:\n manufacturing titanium dioxide particles; and associating a polymer with said titanium dioxide particles that also becomes associated with latex particles in an aqueous based coating formulation to inhibit agglomeration of said titanium dioxide particles while the coating formulation dries, said polymer including:\n a water soluble polymer backbone having a longitudinal axis, a first point and a second point, wherein said water soluble polymer backbone is a polyoxyalkylene polymer or copolymer; \n at least one functional group that is attached to said first point of said polymer backbone, has an affinity for titanium dioxide, and is formed by the reaction of said polymer backbone with a compound having an amino group, a carboxylic acid group, or a hydroxyl group, said compound having an amino group, a carboxylic acid group, or a hydroxyl group being selected from the group of a urea, imidazole, an amide, an amino alcohol, an amino acid, an amine, a carboxylic acid, a hydroxyl acid, a polyol, a silane capable of being covalently bonded to titanium dioxide, and a borate capable of being covalently bonded to titanium dioxide; and \n at least one hydrophobic functional group that is attached to said second point of said polymer backbone, has an affinity for latex, and is selected from the group of a super hydrophobic functional group, and a functional group formed by the reaction of said polymer backbone with an aliphatic compound, an aromatic compound, or an aliphatic-aromatic compound.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23529
- Patent Class: 524.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14528910', '14691185', '15627210', '13840520', '11363438']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8545858589225765
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5762288442410383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8267501574544227
- Mean Citation Score: 346.75221200000016
- Max Citation Score: 428.26733
- Similarity Product: 395.2148707781637

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

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