PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075503
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["424", "409000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides lignin nanoparticles containing a hydrophobic active agent and a process for the production of the lignin nanoparticles. The process involves the following steps: (i) dissolving modified lignin and a hydrophobic active agent in an organic solvent having low solubility in water; (ii) combining the solution with water and a surfactant to form a pre-emulsion; (iii) forming an emulsion from the pre-emulsion; and (iv) crosslinking the modified lignin to form the lignin nanoparticles, in which the modified lignin is lignin which is chemically modified to contain at least two functional groups suitable for polymerization and/or crosslinking.

Claim (Index 3):
The lignin nanoparticles of  claim 1 , having a number average diameter of from 50 nm to 1 \u03bcm as determined by DLS.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80952
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10191703', '12080430', '12441321', '09950114', '11552324']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7306917515527948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5107442694204904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7086970033395643
- Mean Citation Score: 200.964086
- Max Citation Score: 235.79471
- Similarity Product: 141.1138189762658

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

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