PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16071636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["522", "148000"]

Abstract:
Methods according to the present invention decolorize a polymer by mixing a solution of the polymer with a photocatalyst and exposing the mixture to ultraviolet light; by way of non-limiting example, the polymer may be a star polymer and the photocatalyst may be titanium dioxide. Methods according to the present invention also utilize a metal scavenger, in some embodiments a solid-phase metal scavenger, to remove a metal catalyst from a polymer solution; by way of non-limiting example, the metal catalyst may be a tin catalyst. The decolorization methods and the catalyst removal methods of the present invention may be practiced separately, sequentially in any order, or simultaneously.

Claim (Index 29):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein both steps of at least one pair of steps selected from the group consisting of the pair of steps (a) and (c) and the pair of steps (b) and (e) are performed substantially simultaneously.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18519
- Patent Class: 522.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13631033', '11365615', '11154208', '13468687', '12002509']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7155877236963669
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782164239106184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6918505937177921
- Mean Citation Score: 140.487544
- Max Citation Score: 144.10118
- Similarity Product: 72.99145715337991

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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