PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994438
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["422", "037000"]

Abstract:
A method of sterilizing a material, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing a sterilizing composition comprising (i) peracetic acid and (ii) a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of citric acid, isocitric acid, aconitic acid and propane-1,2,3-tricarboxylic acid; b) introducing such sterilizing composition into a hot gaseous stream to produce a peracetic acid vapor; and c) contacting such peracetic acid vapor with the material to be sterilized. The use of such an organic acid stabilizer results in an unexpected reduction in the amount of residue deposited on the heating surface employed to vaporize the sterilizing composition.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 4  wherein the stabilizer is citric acid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79365
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13796439', '15060869', '14519351', '13353033', '15138611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.831046956372762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5232675065906872
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8002690113945545
- Mean Citation Score: 304.548848
- Max Citation Score: 372.94342
- Similarity Product: 331.19592370058893

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

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