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 1):
An acetate tow band comprising fibers, wherein the fibers comprise standard fibers and identification fibers, wherein the standard fibers and the identification fibers comprise cellulose acetate,\n 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 comprise 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 taggant surface markings and the repeated pattern are representative of a bale identifier 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: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15826843', '15225872', '14748865', '15876240', '15460388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7064995156754396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5784795543036948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6936975195382651
- Mean Citation Score: 489.08162
- Max Citation Score: 525.1272
- Similarity Product: 461.4101870427132

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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