PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["426", "316000"]

Abstract:
A process for packaging pressurized beverages. The process includes mixing liquid, a solute that depresses the freezing point of the liquid, and gas. Next, the liquid-gas mixture is allowed to rest. Then, retail containers are filled with the mixture. During the mixing and filling steps of the process, the liquid-gas mixture is subjected to pressures that are higher than atmospheric pressure. Unfortunately, such pressure cannot be maintained when the container is transferred from the filling station to the sealing station causing dissolved gas to leave the liquid and foam to overflow the container during the transfer. To prevent such an overflow, prior to the transfer, the dissolved gas is put to sleep by reducing the temperature of the liquid to below 0° C. (32° F.) and optionally allowing the liquid-gas mixture to rest. The liquid beverage may include milk, coffee, tea, fruit juice, chocolate or mixtures thereof, and may include a gum.

Claim (Index 18):
A system for packaging a pressurized liquid comprising:\n an ingredient mixing tank into which a drinkable liquid and a solute that reduces the freezing point of the liquid are introduced to create a liquid mixture; a gas saturation tank in fluid communication with the ingredient mixing tank permitting the liquid mixture to flow from the ingredient mixing tank to the gas saturation tanks, the gas saturation tank receiving a gas introduced to the liquid mixture at pressures greater than 101325 Pa (1 atmosphere) and in which the liquid mixture is agitated to create a gas-liquid mixture; a heat exchanger in contact with the gas saturation tank such that the temperature of the gas-liquid mixture is reduced to less than 0\u00b0 C. (32\u00b0 F.) to create a cooled gas-liquid mixture; a pressurized filler in fluid communication with the gas saturation tank which permits the cooled gas-liquid mixture to flow from the gas saturation tank to the pressurized filler; a container receiving the cooled gas-liquid mixture from the pressurized filler at a pressure greater than 101325 Pa (1 atmosphere) to create a filled container; a conveyor transmitting the filled container from the pressurized filler during which time the filled container is subject to atmospheric pressure; and a sealer which seals the container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87234
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14982583', '15729385', '15190801', '13828465', '15023140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7131324190865962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106950458970051
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6928886817676371
- Mean Citation Score: 188.26505200000005
- Max Citation Score: 265.8229
- Similarity Product: 172.22674807164668

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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