PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprises a reading section configured to read a first image on a sheet, an image forming section configured to forma second image on the sheet, a fixing section configured to heat the sheet to fix the second image on the sheet, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a color of the read first image, select a decolorable toner based on the determined color, and set a target temperature of the fixing section to a temperature that is below a decoloring temperature of the decolorable toner, and above both a decoloring temperature of a decolorable toner having the determined color and a fixing temperature for the decolorable toner.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein\n if the determined color is the first, second, or third, the fixing section, upon heating the sheet to the target temperature, fixes the second image onto the sheet while also decoloring the first image formed on the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71111
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14482554', '15069965', '13307446', '15364058', '14224336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8363025453620533
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915746445754232
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8018297552833903
- Mean Citation Score: 252.272018
- Max Citation Score: 258.70847000000003
- Similarity Product: 188.5339800879813

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

Dataset: test