PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746185
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["422", "028000"]

Abstract:
Presented are a method for sterilising packaged, partially packaged, or partially sealed consumable items, such as plastic opening and/or closing elements for subsequent use with beverage or food packaging, by means of a treatment agent having a disinfectant, and storage containers and outer packagings that can be used for this purpose. The method can be designed and further developed so that contamination of the consumable items with germ-forming spores is reliably excluded. A consumable item or an area thereof to be sterilised can be disposed in a first sealed environment, so that a plurality of such individually packaged consumable items or sealed areas thereof is stored together for a specified time in a storage container, the inside of which the treatment agent, so that, through the diffusion thereof, the packaged consumable items or sealed areas thereof are also sterilised, thereby achieving “long-term sterilisation”.

Claim (Index 41):
An outer packaging for accommodating one or more container(s) for use with the method according to  claim 23 , wherein the material for the outer packaging is cardboard, resulting in an outer carton with closable flaps, which are folded down and suitably secured in order to close the outer carton and wherein the outer carton is partially wetted on its inside with treatment agent or a treatment carrier treated with a suitable quantity of sterilisation agent is introduced into the outer carton.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82759
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09913241', '09781582', '10429226', '13201169', '11579684']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.750611961665166
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4551816490356587
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7210689304022152
- Mean Citation Score: 98.844887
- Max Citation Score: 101.39334
- Similarity Product: 72.83150542425513

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

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