PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000014
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["062", "063000"]

Abstract:
Product such as food is chilled or frozen in apparatus in which a chilling zone holds a pool of cryogen vapor, and a belt that carries the product through the apparatus passes through a region in the apparatus that is lower than the upper surface of the pool of cryogen vapor.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of chilling or freezing a product comprising\n conveying the product through an enclosure on a movable belt that follows a path between first and second points that includes a segment that is below an imaginary line drawn between the first and second points, wherein the segment is located within a chilling or freezing zone within the enclosure that is defined by the top, bottom and sides of the enclosure and first and second structures located within the enclosure between the first and second points, each structure extending from above the imaginary line to below said line and above the top surface of the belt, the first and second structures impeding entry of air from the ambient atmosphere into said enclosure, wherein the belt does not pass through liquid cryogen within said enclosure; and establishing within said chilling or freezing zone a pool of cold vapor through which said product is conveyed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55882
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11123906', '10920847', '10641998', '14144802', '12921990']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8056923036180579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4717897227937723
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7723020455356294
- Mean Citation Score: 153.53517000000005
- Max Citation Score: 187.69077
- Similarity Product: 147.17557016847968

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

Dataset: test