PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16097861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["131", "370000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a cast sheet of homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: •pulping ( 108 ) cellulose fibres ( 5 ) with water ( 6 ); •grinding ( 102, 106 ) a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to tobacco particles ( 10 ); •combining ( 107 ) the pulped cellulose fibres with the tobacco particles and with a binder ( 8 ) to form a slurry; •homogenizing the slurry; •casting ( 110 ) the slurry to form a cast sheet of homogenized tobacco material from the slurry; •discarding ( 112 ) undesired portions of the cast sheet; and •introducing ( 113 ) the discarded undesired portions ( 9 ) of the cast sheet into the slurry.

Claim (Index 18):
The method according to  claim 2 , including the steps of:\n selecting a total amount of tobacco to be present in the slurry in dry weight; determining an amount of tobacco in dry weight present in the discarded undesired portions of the cast sheet introduced in the slurry; and adding an amount of tobacco particles to the slurry in order to reach said selected total amount of tobacco in the slurry when summed to the amount of tobacco present in the discarded undesired portions of the cast sheet already introduced in the slurry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20635
- Patent Class: 131.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15503805', '15503519', '15503533', '15772161', '15526008']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8089721854791082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5339354178521031
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7814685087164077
- Mean Citation Score: 329.107938
- Max Citation Score: 384.1788
- Similarity Product: 270.8713508075237

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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