PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["159", "003000"]

Abstract:
A system and method is provided for processing milk for spray drying. The system may have a pre-evaporator configured to receive and concentrate the milk stream producing an intermediate concentration milk. The system may also have a first buffer tank configured to receive the intermediate concentration milk and store the intermediate concentrate milk at a reduced temperature. The system may further have a first finisher evaporator configured to draw the intermediate concentration milk from the first buffer tank and concentrate the intermediate concentration milk producing a final concentration milk. The final concentration milk may be suitable for spray drying.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , further comprises heating the intermediate concentration milk drawn from the buffer tank and supplied to the finisher evaporator using heat recovered from the cooling of the intermediate concentration milk accumulated in the buffer tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4186
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14923814', '13050931', '14170164', '15641104', '10378485']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6397528217468952
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6453467312249048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6403122126946962
- Mean Citation Score: 234.854214
- Max Citation Score: 554.538
- Similarity Product: 410.8202067947389

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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