PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198997
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["222", "100000"]

Abstract:
The present invention discloses a beverage supplementation device for a beverage dispenser, adapted to supplement a beverage flowing from a beverage source to a beverage sink with a plurality of supplementation fluids, comprising: a plurality of beverage conduits, wherein each beverage conduit comprises a beverage inlet that is adapted to be coupled to the same beverage source supplying beverage to be supplemented, and wherein each beverage conduit comprises an outlet; and at least two supplementation conduits, wherein each supplementation conduit has a supplementation inlet adapted to be coupled to a supplementation source providing at least one supplementation fluid, wherein each supplementation conduit is coupled with a different supplementation source and wherein each supplementation conduit comprises an outlet; wherein the outlet of each supplementation conduit is connected to a different beverage conduit; and wherein the outlets of the beverage conduits are coupled with the same beverage sink.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of supplementing a beverage with a plurality of supplementation fluids in a beverage dispenser, the beverage dispenser comprising:\n at least one beverage conduit including a beverage inlet adapted to be coupled to a beverage source supplying beverage to be supplemented, and a beverage outlet coupled to a beverage sink; a first dosing device, wherein an outlet of the first dosing device is connected to an inlet of a first supplementation conduit and an inlet of the first dosing device is connected to a first supplementation source comprising a first supplementation component; and a second dosing device, wherein an outlet of the second dosing device is connected to an inlet of a second supplementation conduit and an inlet of the second dosing device is connected to a second supplementation source comprising a second supplementation component; wherein the outlet of the second supplementation conduit is located downstream of the outlet of the first supplementation conduit of the same beverage conduit; wherein the method comprises the step of controlling the first dosing device and the second dosing device such that the first supplementation component supplied by the first dosing device does not react with the second supplementation component supplied by the second dosing device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15054576', '11711139', '11054307', '14362343', '14105754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7725817730212957
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4619789875809023
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7415214944772563
- Mean Citation Score: 174.683536
- Max Citation Score: 190.5873
- Similarity Product: 154.08701325275302

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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