PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866408
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["222", "092000"]

Abstract:
A spout includes a mounting portion to which a pouch of a container assembly is sealed. The exterior of the mounting portion is defined by a smooth, non-angled surface free of edges or sharp transition portions, and is defined along its height by a generally sinusoidal, wave-like pattern formed by alternating peaks and troughs. The exterior of the mounting portion is structured such that the ratio of the length of the portion of the mounting portion exterior surface extending between adjacent peaks to the height between adjacent peaks is minimized to no more than 10%, and more preferably no more than 5%. By minimizing this ratio, the amount that a pouch will stretch if it is pushed into the cavities formed between adjacent peaks of the mounting portion (e.g. during an HPP process) is minimized, thereby preventing damage to the pouch and/or attachment between the pouch and spout.

Claim (Index 16):
A pouch and spout assembly comprising:\n a pouch defining an interior in which contents may be stored; a spout having:\n a flow channel that fluidly connects the interior of the pouch with a location outside the pouch; \n a mounting portion formed about the flow channel, the mounting portion comprising a generally vertically extending wall having an inner surface and an exterior surface, the inner surface of the wall defining an opening that is in fluid communication with the flow channel and the interior of the pouch; \n one or more mounting structures extending radially outwards from and spaced along a height of the exterior surface of the wall, an inner surface of the pouch being sealed to the spout along the mounting structures to form a fluid-tight interface; and \n one or more cavities formed between adjacent mounting structures, each cavity being bounded in its entirety by the inner surface of the portion of the pouch extending between the adjacent mounting structures and the portion of the exterior surface of the wall extending between the adjacent mounting structures; \n wherein the arrangement of the mounting structures along the exterior surface of the wall prevents the portion of the pouch extending between adjacent mounting structures to stretch any more than 10% relative to the original length of the portion of the pouch when the pouch is forced radially inwards from an initial location towards the exterior surface of the wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01235
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15709417', '15154680', '15363174', '14661740', '14182130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7915694352659666
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5186195649674564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7642744482361156
- Mean Citation Score: 290.8148
- Max Citation Score: 350.43197999999984
- Similarity Product: 268.00628862307184

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