PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16279525
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["452", "177000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for applying an antimicrobial agent to food products include methods and systems for limiting the escape of antimicrobial agent to the environment during antimicrobial treatment of the food product. In one embodiment, a series of cabinet panels moves in line with the passing food product and forms an enclosure around the food product by means of panels closing ahead of and behind the food product. In another embodiment, the direction and spray pattern of positively charged aerosolized antimicrobial particles is controlled by attracting the particles to preselected negatively charged regions within a treatment volume.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for antimicrobial treatment of food products, comprising:\n a) aerosolizing a liquid antimicrobial agent to form aerosolized antimicrobial particles; b) imparting a positive charge to the aerosolized antimicrobial particles; c) spraying the aerosolized antimicrobial particles into a treatment volume; d) placing at least one food product at least partially within the treatment volume such that at least a first portion of the aerosolized antimicrobial particles adheres to a surface of the at least one food product to form a substantially uniform layer of the antimicrobial agent; e) imparting a negative charge to at least one evacuation region within the treatment volume to attract at least a second portion of the aerosolized antimicrobial particles into the at least one evacuation region; and g) evacuating substantially all of the aerosolized antimicrobial particles within the evacuation region from the treatment volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72881
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15255897', '13215124', '15348931', '12054806', '13285341']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4672730564632559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.545188707493189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4750646215662492
- Mean Citation Score: 242.74875
- Max Citation Score: 449.48035
- Similarity Product: 312.9842726013958

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

Dataset: test