PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["424", "417000"]

Abstract:
A system for the protection against degradation during pelleting of one or more physiologically or pharmacologically active substances, comprising compositions in the form of micro particles or granules, particularly for use in the zootechnical and/or veterinary field. The micro particles include a core which contains one or more substances having a pharmacological action, food supplements or diagnostic media, said one or more substances being characterized by the presence, within their chemical structure, of a basic functional group, specifically including an amine functional group. The core comprises also one or more carboxylic acids and/or their salts and eventually one or more excipients. Said core is coated by an outer layer of fats or waxes, and preferably by a mixture of glyceride of fatty acids.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of feeding a pelleted feed product to a ruminant, the method comprising:\n providing the ruminant a pelleted feed product, the pelleted feed product comprising a micro particle and at least one additional feed component, the micro particle comprising a mixture of at least one active substance and at least one carboxylic acid and/or salt thereof, wherein the mixture is embedded within a fatty substance, further wherein:\n the at least one carboxylic acid and/or salt thereof is characterized by the presence of an acidic functional group and at least one lipophilic functional group, and \n the at least one active substance includes a basic functional group that interacts with the acidic functional group of the carboxylic acid and/or salt thereof, and the lipophilic functional group adheres to the fatty substance such that the fatty substance defines an outer fat layer that protects the at least one active substance from the at least one additional feed component in the pelleted feed product, and \n wherein, in response to ingesting the pelleted feed product, the protected at least one active substance remains protected from ruminal degradation and available for absorption in an intestine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6875
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13957877', '10588969', '12420898', '12420961', '11228818']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6881105770306712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5325882481244911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6725583441400533
- Mean Citation Score: 186.818632
- Max Citation Score: 365.7506
- Similarity Product: 343.86536172006134

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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