PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["008", "115550"]

Abstract:
A method for enhancing bleaching efficacy for treatment of articles, including for example laundry is disclosed. Methods for sanitizing and/or disinfecting and bleaching laundry and other articles is provided by washing the articles with a peroxyformic acid composition at a first pH for effective antimicrobial efficacy, thereafter applying an alkaline source to increase the pH for addition of a bleaching activator and/or catalyst for the bleaching agent at a second pH, and lastly draining the remaining components of the peroxyformic acid composition, and the bleaching agent and bleach activator/catalyst from the articles. The methods can be provided as part of a laundry cleaning operation and can be utilized in industrial and commercial applications.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises an adjuvant use solution comprising at least one of souring agents, fabric softening agents, starch, anti-wrinkle agents, sizing agents, color-fastness agents, oil and water repellant agents, water conditioning agents, iron controlling agents, water threshold agents, soil releasing agents, soil shielding agents, optical brightening agents, fragrances, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the adjuvant use solution is applied to the laundry in the laundry washing machine at a pH from about 5 to about 8 for about 1 to about 6 minutes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16015391', '10754491', '13331104', '13661352', '14500473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7903926559360784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5675439287087986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7681077832133505
- Mean Citation Score: 329.604486
- Max Citation Score: 457.7406
- Similarity Product: 377.4796280004501

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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