PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16290510
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["422", "026000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for sterilization are presented. An exemplary embodiment includes a sterilizing cabinet assembly. The sterilizing cabinet includes a cabinet having an access port, a door connected to the cabinet, the door moveable between an open position permitting passage through the access port to an interior of the cabinet and a closed position precluding passage through the access port. The sterilizing cabinet assembly also includes at least one of the cabinet and the door having a vent port. The sterilizing cabinet has a primary filter overlying the vent port and forming a sealed interface with an adjacent portion of the one of the cabinet and the door and a secondary filter overlying at least a portion of the primary filter.

Claim (Index 34):
A method of verifying sterilization, the method comprising:\n (a) disposing a primary filter within a first filter holder, the first filter holder configured to hold the primary filter to occlude a vent port of a sterilizing cabinet; (b) forming a first sealed interface between the primary filter and the sterilizing cabinet; (c) disposing a confirmatory filter within a second filter holder, the second filter holder configured to hold the primary filter to occlude the vent port of the sterilizing cabinet; (d) forming a second sealed interface between the confirmatory filter and at least a portion of one of the sterilizing cabinet and the primary filter, at least a portion of the confirmatory filter overlying a portion of the primary filter; (e) passing a sterilizing agent through the primary filter and the confirmatory filter during a sterilization cycle; (f) opening the second filter holder; (g) removing the confirmatory filter from the filter holder after the sterilization cycle; and (h) maintaining the first sealed interface with the sterilizing cabinet while removing the confirmatory filter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41509
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14167691', '15461895', '15662873', '14675048', '14584751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8634781336383507
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5817381685794941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8353041371324651
- Mean Citation Score: 503.08495199999993
- Max Citation Score: 532.6556
- Similarity Product: 464.6058418905259

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

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