PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990309
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["044", "590000"]

Abstract:
An additive used in the production of wood pellets to increase throughput. The additive may be applied as a booster to wood prior to forming the wood into pellets. The booster may comprise 30% to 100% tall oil pitch and 70% to 0% tall oil head and may be applied at a rate of 0.01 to 2 wt. % of the wood.

Claim (Index 22):
A wood pellet produced by a process comprising the steps of:\n applying a booster to wood; and forming the wood into wood pellets, where the application of the booster results in increased throughput of the wood pellets compared to throughput of wood pellets formed from wood without the booster.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79487
- Patent Class: 44.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11932713', '10963954', '13596572', '11176814', '15948601']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6595525854544111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5454873604837124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6481460629573412
- Mean Citation Score: 162.475596
- Max Citation Score: 170.62386
- Similarity Product: 91.72383454421282

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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