PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758775
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["426", "466000"]

Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for roasting a food product including: loading a batch of a predetermined food product type in a roasting device; setting operating parameters of the roasting device according to initial reference values for the predetermined food product type; performing feedback control during the heating of the product by obtaining, instant by instant, a value for a sound quantity which is relative to a sound emitted by the product, the sound being detected in a frequency range including both human ear audible and ultrasound frequencies; comparing the sound quantity's value obtained at each instant to a value taken by the sound quantity at such instant in a roasting curve of sound quantity versus time associated with the predetermined food product type; and adjusting, instant by instant, the operating parameters of the roasting device depending on the result of the comparison.

Claim (Index 14):
Apparatus for roasting a food product, comprising:\n a roasting device adapted to receive a batch of a predetermined food product type to be roasted, the roasting device comprising a sound sensor operating in a frequency range comprising both human ear audible frequencies and ultrasound frequencies; a control device for adjusting the operation of the roasting device by acting on operating parameters of the roasting device; a database, adapted to store a respective roasting curve of a sound quantity versus time, and respective initial reference values for said operating parameters, for each of a plurality of product types; wherein the control device is configured to:\n initially set said operating parameters according to the respective initial reference values, which are associated to said predetermined food product type in said database, so as to start a heating of the product adapted to bring the product to roasting; and \n perform a feedback control of the operation of the roasting device during the heating of the product:\n by obtaining, instant by instant, a value for a sound quantity of a sound emitted by the product, wherein said sound is detected by said sound sensor; \n by comparing the sound quantity's value, which is obtained at each instant, to a value taken by the sound quantity, at said instant, in the respective roasting curve of said sound quantity versus time, which is associated to said predetermined food product type in said database; and \n by adjusting, instant by instant, the operating parameters of the roasting device depending on the result of said comparison.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12329
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14932325', '15180780', '13529838', '11535479', '10043873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7282238599615475
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4929860031320682
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7047000742785996
- Mean Citation Score: 199.719626
- Max Citation Score: 209.11252
- Similarity Product: 142.05038625139954

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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