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 1):
A spout for use with a flexible container, the spout comprising:\n a flow channel configured to fluidly connect an interior of a container with a location outside the container; 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 container; one or more horizontally extending raised elements extending radially outwards from the exterior surface of the wall, each of the raised elements having a mounting surface configured for sealing to an inner surface of the container; a distance as measured along a height of the mounting portion between a first mounting surface of a first element and a second mounting surface of an adjacent second element being defined by a length H; a distance as measured along the periphery of a portion of the exterior surface extending between the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface being defined by a length P; wherein the length P is no more than 10% greater than the length H.

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): 0.791508491277685
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.518270344559717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7641846766058882
- Mean Citation Score: 290.8148
- Max Citation Score: 350.43197999999984
- Similarity Product: 275.35014299939627

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