PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255115
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["426", "231000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method in which a quantitative and descriptive approach is used to adapt the food texture in the clinical management of dysphagia. There is provided a new index, ST index, and method of use for determining and modulating the physical characteristics of foods in a manner to allow the food composition at serving temperature to have a desired combination of firmness, adhesiveness, springiness and cohesiveness to overcome dysphagia-related problems.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein, in step B, the ST index is calculated by:\n i) forming a 3 cm\u00d73 cm\u00d72 cm sample of the first solid food composition, ii) applying a compression 1 and a compression 2 to said sample at food serving temperature with a Lloyd texture meter model LRX fitted with a 50 N load cell and a 50 mm diameter disk-shaped probe to generate a slope consisting of data A, B, C, D, E, F\u2032 G, H, I and J; iii) calculating the ST index in which:\n F is the slope calculated when x=0 of an ascending curve by the texture meter defined by a distance between B and D; \n |A| is calculated as the absolute value of adhesiveness defined by the distance between E and F; \n S is calculated as [(D\u2212C)/(D\u2212A)]\u00d7100; and C is calculated as (Compression 2[(H\u22122)\u00d7(I\u2212G)])/(Compression 1[(B/2)\u00d7(C\u2212A)]).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49057
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14363797', '13804781', '14891403', '15127477', '14002052']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7293725807116785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5058591050353622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.707021233144047
- Mean Citation Score: 189.91364400000003
- Max Citation Score: 202.64508
- Similarity Product: 126.07260558876514

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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