PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["235", "454000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are acetate tow bands comprising identification fibers made of cellulose acetate which exhibit surface markings in a repeated pattern along the length of the identification fibers. The identification fibers can be incorporated into an acetate tow band. The surface markings and repeated pattern can be representative of a bale identifier. The identification fibers can be recovered from a cigarette filter, the repeated pattern decoded, and supply chain information associated with the acetate tow band used to make the cigarette filter can be obtained.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of characterizing a cigarette filter, wherein the cigarette filter comprises an acetate tow band,\n wherein the acetate tow band comprises fibers, the fibers comprise standard fibers and identification fibers, the standard fibers and the identification fibers comprise cellulose acetate, wherein a ratio of a size of the identification fibers to a size of the standard fibers (dpf ID fibers :dpf STD fibers ) is 1.5:1 or greater, wherein the identification fibers exhibit one or more taggant surface markings, wherein the taggant surface markings form a repeated pattern along a length of the identification fibers, and wherein the method comprises\n (a) locating the identification fibers by exploiting the ratio of the size of the identification fibers to the size of the standard fibers; \n (b) separating the identification fibers from the cigarette filter; \n (c) applying imaging technology to at least one of the identification fibers; \n (d) detecting the taggant surface markings; \n (e) determining the repeated pattern of the taggant surface markings, \n wherein the taggant surface markings and the repeated pattern are representative of at least one supply chain component of the acetate tow band; and \n (f) generating, based on the detection and determination, supply chain information correlating the taggant surface markings and the repeated pattern to at least one supply chain component of the acetate tow band.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83673
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15826843', '15225872', '14748865', '15876240', '15460388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7310636984766169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5791036696538054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7158676955943357
- Mean Citation Score: 489.08162
- Max Citation Score: 525.1272
- Similarity Product: 454.0961548182965

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

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