PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["219", "762000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling a microwave heating system is provided. The method may be used with a system having a liquid-filled microwave heating chamber and includes measuring the value of one or more microwave system parameters. Suitable parameters can include, for example, net microwave power discharged, the temperature of the liquid in the microwave chamber, the flow rate of liquid through the microwave chamber, and the speed of the conveyance system disposed within the microwave chamber. The measured value of the selected parameter is then compared to a target value for that parameter in order to determine a difference. Based on the difference, one or more actions can be taken in order to start, stop, or alter the operation of the microwave heating system.

Claim (Index 24):
The system of  claim 23 , further comprising a thermalization chamber, a holding chamber, and a quench chamber, wherein said thermalization chamber is located upstream of said microwave heating chamber and is configured to adjust the temperature of said articles to a substantially uniform temperature so that at least 85 percent of the articles exiting the thermalization chamber have a temperature within 5\u00b0 C. of one another, wherein said quench chamber is located downstream of said microwave heating chamber and is configured for cooling the heated articles by at least about 30\u00b0 C., wherein said holding chamber is located between said microwave heating chamber and said quench chamber for maintaining the temperature of said articles at or above a minimum temperature for a time period in the range of from about 2 minutes to about 10 minutes, wherein each of said thermalization chamber, said holding chamber, and said quench chamber are configured to be at least partially filled with said liquid medium, wherein at least one of said thermalization chamber and said microwave heating chamber comprise a plurality of fluid jet agitators configured for discharging pressurized jets of liquid toward said articles, wherein said microwave heating chamber is configured to heat said articles by at least about 25\u00b0 C. in a period of time in the range of from about 60 seconds to about 10 minutes, wherein n is at least three and each of said launch openings has at least one dimension that is less than about 0.5\u03bb, wherein said system is configured to pasteurize or sterilize said articles at a rate of at least 15 packages per minute.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 82.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07576
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13799799', '13799835', '13799610', '13799991', '13799746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8565526424786385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.556658700780635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8265632483088381
- Mean Citation Score: 425.567202
- Max Citation Score: 457.305
- Similarity Product: 310.0432376629114

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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