PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16290510
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["422", "026000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for sterilization are presented. An exemplary embodiment includes a sterilizing cabinet assembly. The sterilizing cabinet includes a cabinet having an access port, a door connected to the cabinet, the door moveable between an open position permitting passage through the access port to an interior of the cabinet and a closed position precluding passage through the access port. The sterilizing cabinet assembly also includes at least one of the cabinet and the door having a vent port. The sterilizing cabinet has a primary filter overlying the vent port and forming a sealed interface with an adjacent portion of the one of the cabinet and the door and a secondary filter overlying at least a portion of the primary filter.

Claim (Index 31):
A method for verifying sterilization, the method comprising:\n (a) performing a sterilization cycle on a sterilizing cabinet having an access port, an interior, a vent port on at least one of the sterilizing cabinet and a door, a first filter holder sized to encompass an area surrounding the vent port and engage a primary filter against the area surrounding the vent port forming a sealed interface between the primary filter and the area surrounding the vent port, and a second filter holder having a secondary filter overlying at least a portion of the secondary filter and forming a sealed interface between both the primary filter and the secondary filter against the area surrounding the vent port; (b) removing the secondary filter from the sterilizing cabinet while retaining the sealed interface between the primary filter and the area surrounding the vent port; and (c) examining the secondary filter to verify the integrity of the sterilization cycle on the sterilizing cabinet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41509
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14167691', '15461895', '15662873', '14675048', '14584751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8638828129413005
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5796629812589227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8354608297730628
- Mean Citation Score: 503.08495199999993
- Max Citation Score: 532.6556
- Similarity Product: 455.5178898204327

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

Dataset: test