PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16326808
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "492300"]

Abstract:
Methods for pasteurizing and/or sterilizing particulate goods ( 1 ), containing the following steps: a) producing an electron beam ( 5 ), b) pasteurizing and/or sterilizing the goods ( 1 ) by the electron beam ( 5 ) in a treatment zone ( 3 ), wherein the electrons of the electron beam ( 5 ) have an energy that lies in the range of 80 keV to 300 keV, preferably from 140 keV to 280 keV, more preferably from 180 keV to 260 keV, the goods ( 1 ) being exposed to the electron beam ( 5 ) for a treatment time which lies in the range from 5 ms to 25 ms, and the electron beam ( 5 ) has a mean electron current density in the treatment zone ( 3 ) which lies in the range of 10 15  s −1 ·cm 2  to 2.77·10 15  s −1 ·cm −2 .

Claim (Index 24):
The method according to  claim 13 , wherein the material ( 1 ) is selected from the group consisting of:\n foodstuffs, such as grains, for example soya, breakfast cereals, snacks, nuts, such as dried coconut, almonds, peanut butter, cocoa beans, chocolate, liquid chocolate, chocolate powder, chocolate chips, cocoa products, pulses, coffee, seeds, for example pumpkin seeds, spices (such as turmeric, in particular sliced), tea mixtures, dried fruits, pistachios, dried protein products, bakery products, sugar, potato products, pasta products, baby food, dried egg products, soya products, for example soya beans, thickeners, yeasts, yeast extracts, gelatins or enzymes; animal feed, such as pellets, food for ruminants, birds, aquatic species (in particular fish) or domestic pets, or compound feed;\n plastics, such as PET, for example in the form of flakes or pellets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43284
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14405342', '14416091', '14903997', '15944360', '15527490']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7087097957143418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5057756222765551
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6884163783705631
- Mean Citation Score: 118.0715712
- Max Citation Score: 131.26198
- Similarity Product: 64.48173680237949

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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