PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767430
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["422", "028000"]

Abstract:
A sterilization apparatus characterized in that the sterilization apparatus comprises a reactive oxygen species irradiation unit for irradiating a reactive oxygen species-containing gas which is a reaction product of plasma generated using an alternating current and a water-containing gas containing steam, the sterilization apparatus further containing an inlet unit for steam flow for supplying the water-containing gas heated to a temperature of from 50° to 300° C., wherein the reactive oxygen species-containing gas contains water in an amount equal to or greater than the amount of saturated steam. The sterilization apparatus of the present invention shows excellent sterilization activity, so that it can be suitably used in sterilization of containers for foodstuff, bottle caps sealing the openings of the containers, medical devices, foodstuff such as vegetables and meat, and the like.

Claim (Index 6):
The sterilization method using the sterilization apparatus as defined in  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15767904', '10005786', '13621719', '13698348', '11911644']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7920387207313924
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862500594202551
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7614598546002787
- Mean Citation Score: 162.36676599999996
- Max Citation Score: 193.96709
- Similarity Product: 122.151031866709

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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