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 30):
The method according to  claim 29 , wherein the duration of the exposure to treatment agent in the container is between 24 hours and 7 days.

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): 0.745062564053603
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815530208306503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187116097313079
- Mean Citation Score: 98.844887
- Max Citation Score: 101.39334
- Similarity Product: 60.05463444711327

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

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