PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743588
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["426", "637000"]

Abstract:
Described is a method for the preparation of dried crunchy potato bodies as consumable upon rehydration, comprising the steps of providing potatoes, cutting the potatoes of step in bodies having a thickness of 3.5 mm or less, heating the potato bodies of step to a temperature of 140° C. or less, blast chilling the heated potato bodies to 10° C. or less, and drying the potato bodies to a dry matter content of at least 90 w/w % at a temperature below 0° C. Also described is a method for the preparation of pickled potato strings, comprising the steps of providing potatoes, cutting the potatoes in strings having a cross-sectional area of 25 mm 2  or less, heating the potato strings, blast chilling the heated potato strings and incubating the blast chilled tomato strings in a liquid pickling medium having a pH of between 3 and 4.5 at elevated temperature.

Claim (Index 28):
Method for the determination of suitability of a batch of potatoes for use in the method according to  claim 1 , comprising the following steps:\n A) providing peeled potatoes, B) cutting the peeled potatoes in strings with a cross sectional area of 2.5\u00d72.5 mm, of which at least 90% has a length of 30-150 mm, C) blanching the said potato strings in boiling water during 3 minutes, D) loading 160 g of the blanched potato strings in a container having a top and a bottom wall, a height of 40 mm, a length of 100 mm and a width of 70 mm, which top wall has 3 slits, each having a length of 65 mm and a width of 5 mm, the slits having a distance of 2 cm to one another and oriented in parallel to one another, and perpendicular to the axis of the chamber, E) closing the chamber, F) moving sequentially through each slit in vertical direction towards the bottom wall of the chamber with a speed of 1.0 mm/s over a distance of 24 mm, a probe cutting blade having a lower cutting portion  31  having length of 60 mm and a height of 5.7 mm between a lower side and an upper side thereof, at said lower side a lower sharp cutting edge being arranged having a length of 53 mm, flanked by rounded edges, the upper side of the cutting portion being adjacent to a lower side of a blade portion  3  the length thereof rejuvenating over a height of 34 mm to an upper side having a length of 46 mm and a thickness at the upper side of 2 mm, the thickness of the blade portion  3  rejuvenating from the upper side thereof with an angle of 1\u00b0 between the front and back side thereof towards the cutting portion, said cutting portion rejuvenating from the upper side thereof with an angle of 6\u00b0 between the front and back side thereof to the lower sharp cutting edge with a calibrated sharpness of 2.08-2.44 N, during said moving, measuring the resistance force exerted on the blade as soon as the said force exceeds a threshold of 0.49 N, steps D)-F) being performed at 60\u00b0 C., G) repeating steps D)-G), resulting in 6 measurements, H) calculating the parameters Fmax (maximum average resistance force) and SA (average surface area, defined as the surface under a graph, reflecting the resistance force curve in time during each measurement of steps G) from the 6 measurements wherein outlier values outside the 95% confidence interval by variance analysis (ANOVA) are excluded from the calculation, I) determine the potatoes as suitable if the Fmax is at least 12 N above the threshold, and the SA is at least 130 Ns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 208.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25352
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15111898', '15465258', '14816784', '12090845', '14444731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6755036812921844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5491159918155648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6628649123445225
- Mean Citation Score: 242.098852
- Max Citation Score: 419.85757
- Similarity Product: 300.57245736370214

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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