PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032836
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "134000"]

Abstract:
A method for fractionating a milled grain product into coarse and fine fractions includes providing a sieving apparatus with a bottom chamber divided from a top chamber by a sieve, an inlet port in the top chamber, a top chamber cover defined by a plurality of openings, and a first exit port in the bottom chamber, and applying vacuum suction to the sieving apparatus. The vacuum suction is configured to draw grain particles through the inlet port into the top chamber, generate substantially horizontal airflow in the top chamber via the inlet port; and generate substantially vertical airflow in the top chamber via the plurality of openings, wherein the substantially horizontal airflow and the substantially vertical airflow combine to generate turbulence which fluidizes the grain particles in the upper chamber and prevents blockage of the sieve; and drawing fine grain particles through the sieve and out of the bottom chamber via the first exit port under the vacuum suction and collecting a fine grain particle fraction.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the milled grain product is pulse flour and the fine fraction is enriched in starch relative to the unfractionated flour.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51429
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15120450', '12302665', '13438926', '10945199', '11454758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6900520497754128
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5531113244402466
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6763579772418962
- Mean Citation Score: 274.940222
- Max Citation Score: 445.1699
- Similarity Product: 317.5025637478292

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

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