PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913129
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["425", "310000"]

Abstract:
Visually distinct, flaked Ready-to-Eat (“R-T-E”) cereal products with varied texture and thickness are produced by forming a cereal dough and forcing the same through an extrusion die assembly including various spaced openings which establish a plurality of dough streams which are merged prior to reaching a die outlet. Directly at the die outlet, a resulting dough extrudate is sliced by a cutter unit to form dough discs which are then dried and cooled, during which the discs curl and form cereal flakes having varying textures defined, at least in part, by distinct sets of surface bumps. The number and configuration of the bumps can be altered by changing the number, shape and/or position of the various spaced openings of the die assembly, while the thickesses of the resulting cereal flakes can be varied by just altering an operational speed of the cutter unit.

Claim (Index 1):
A cereal flake comprising a curled flake body having a plurality of spaced, interconnected surface bumps, wherein the curled flake body includes a lower body portion, side portions and a peripheral edge portion, wherein the plurality of spaced bumps include a first set of bumps in the lower body portion and a second set of bumps in the side portions, with the first set of bumps being shaped different from the first set of bumps.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78409
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14602807', '13372977', '11203765', '12414110', '12203303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7527418707639703
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5301266900593805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7304803526935113
- Mean Citation Score: 288.0841920000001
- Max Citation Score: 368.77307
- Similarity Product: 277.62181424714686

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

Dataset: test