PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16168117
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["425", "388000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods of forming selected portions of integral sheets of material are disclosed. Unformed portions of the sheets may remain undistorted during the forming process, allowing them to contain text, art work, or other desired information without material risk of the information being degraded or becoming unintelligible during the forming process. This result may be accomplished, moreover, with less trim than usually occurs in conventional forming processes.

Claim (Index 20):
Apparatus according to  claim 18  in which the mold further comprises a plurality of clamps surrounding at least some of the perimeter and configured to secure the plastic material against the upper surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46154
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13732454', '13732452', '13008066', '14689235', '13596087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7575029311256796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5121780301578761
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7329704410288992
- Mean Citation Score: 240.357024
- Max Citation Score: 277.50595
- Similarity Product: 180.80259909079072

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

Dataset: test