PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200067
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["148", "225000"]

Abstract:
A workpiece made from a self passivating metal and having one or more surface regions defining a Beilby layer as a result of a previous metal shaping operation is activated for subsequent low temperature gas hardening by exposing the workpiece to the vapors produced by heating an oxygen-free nitrogen halide salt.

Claim (Index 42):
The process of  claim 27 , wherein the workpiece is contacted with one or more N/C compounds during the time when the workpiece is being activated by contact with said vapors, wherein said N/C compounds comprise compounds which (a) contain both nitrogen and carbon atoms, (b) contain at least one nitrogen to carbon bond, (c) contain at least four carbon atoms, and (d) exist in a solid or liquid state at a temperature of 25\u00b0 C. and a pressure of 1 atmosphere (0.1 MPa).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.15556
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14813290', '12850925', '15409074', '13733939', '14938916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7752947632962397
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5943030917785403
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7571955961444699
- Mean Citation Score: 300.6574500000001
- Max Citation Score: 541.0892299999998
- Similarity Product: 361.06122420406336

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

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