PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029789
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["222", "100000"]

Abstract:
A beverage dispenser and methods of beverage dispensing include a dispenser with a beverage valve and a purge valve. The beverage valve is connected the dispenser body and is actively operable to control a flow of a base beverage into a flow path of the dispenser. The purge valve is selectively operable to control a flow of a purge substance into the flow path. A nozzle is configured to mix a flavoring from a flavoring nozzle with a base beverage from the beverage valve prior to dispensing a mixture of the flavoring and the base beverage from the nozzle.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of dispensing flavored beverages, the method comprising:\n receiving a beverage order at a controller, the beverage order received through a user input and comprising at least one premixed base beverage and at least one flavoring; operating a first beverage valve to dispense a first premixed base beverage through a flow path in a dispenser body into a nozzle of a dispenser; operating at least one flavor source to dispense at least one flavoring into the nozzle of the dispenser; mixing the first premixed base beverage and the at least one flavoring in the nozzle; dispensing the mixed first premixed base beverage and the at least one flavoring from the nozzle; operating the first beverage valve and the at least one flavor source to end dispense of the first premixed base beverage and the at least one flavoring; opening a purge valve fluidly connected to the flow path to purge the flow path of residual first premixed base beverage and at least one flavoring with a purge substance; and closing the purge valve to end the purge with the purge substance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.94286
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15094176', '15231941', '15863066', '10962768', '11047639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7852160163238179
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5758160512250391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.76427601981394
- Mean Citation Score: 308.5563180000001
- Max Citation Score: 514.16
- Similarity Product: 416.525959815979

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

Dataset: test