PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["426", "657000"]

Abstract:
Moisture is retained in cooked or thawed food by adding to the food an aqueous suspension of animal muscle protein obtained from animal muscle tissue. The aqueous suspension is obtained by mixing comminuted animal muscle tissue with a food grade base to form an aqueous basic solution of animal muscle protein. The basic solution is mixed with a food grade acid to precipitate the protein in an aqueous composition. The precipitated protein then is comminuted to form an aqueous suspension of comminuted animal muscle protein.

Claim (Index 4):
A process for retaining moisture in animal muscle tissue which comprises:\n A) adding an injectable salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue protein composition to said animal muscle tissue at a weight ratio between about 0.03% and about 18% by weight of the injectable salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue composition to said animal muscle tissue, whereby said injectable salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue protein composition is injected into said animal muscle, and B) cooking or thawing said animal muscle tissue with said injectable salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue protein composition from step A) wherein, after cooking, the animal muscle tissue weighs between about 1% and about 20% greater than an animal muscle tissue not subjected to step A), or after thawing, the animal muscle tissue weighs between about 4% and about 15% greater than an animal muscle tissue not subjected to step A); wherein the injectable salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue protein composition is for use during a food processing injection procedure with at least one injection pathway, and wherein said salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue comprises sarcoplasmic proteins and myofibrillar proteins derived from animal muscle tissue and is obtained by the process comprising the steps of:\n 1) comminuting animal muscle tissue to form comminuted animal muscle tissue, \n 2) mixing said comminuted animal muscle tissue with a food grade alkaline composition to solubilize animal muscle protein thereby forming an aqueous basic solution of animal muscle protein; \n 3) then mixing said aqueous basic solution of Step 2) with a food grade acid composition to precipitate the animal muscle protein in solution to form an aqueous suspension of animal muscle protein particulates; \n 4) then adding salt to said aqueous suspension of step 3) to form a salted aqueous suspension of animal muscle protein; and \n 5) then comminuting said salted aqueous suspension of step 4) of animal muscle protein to form the injectable salted aqueous suspension of functional animal muscle tissue protein composition including sarcoplasmic proteins and myofibrillar proteins; \n whereby said injectable salted aqueous suspension is flowable through at least one injection pathway during an injection procedure without blocking at least one injection pathway.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28205
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15277361', '15274076', '15345095', '14039559', '12798423']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8438596594429713
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6487085669324859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8243445501919227
- Mean Citation Score: 617.48513
- Max Citation Score: 620.8814
- Similarity Product: 618.6773493672966

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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