PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213694
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["264", "476000"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) grinding recycled PET bottles into a group of flakes; (B) washing the flakes; (C) identifying and removing impurities, including impure flakes, from the group of flakes; (D) passing the flakes through a PET crystallizer; (E) passing the group of flakes through an MRS extruder while maintaining the pressure within the MRS portion of the MRS extruder below about 18 millibars; (F) passing the resulting polymer melt through at least one filter having a micron rating of less than about 50 microns; and (G) forming the recycled polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament that consists essentially of recycled PET.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein washing the plurality of flakes of recycled PET comprises using aqueous density separation to separate remnants of bottle caps from the plurality of recycled PET bottles from the plurality of flakes of recycled PET.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15473385', '14546796', '15419955', '15473402', '14546819']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8731270175898553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5981888800470508
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8456332038355749
- Mean Citation Score: 537.59893
- Max Citation Score: 587.30884
- Similarity Product: 445.146784211011

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

Dataset: test