PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049544
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["426", "549000"]

Abstract:
Meat-flavored snack chips formed pleurotus eryngii mushrooms and methods of making them. The pleurotus eryngii mushroom snack chips described herein may have a meat-like flavor rich in umami.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of forming crisp mushroom snack chips having a savory flavor, the method comprising:\n normalizing a  pleurotus eryngii  mushrooms by exposing to air at between 65\u00b0 F. and 75\u00b0 F. for approximately 24 hours and refrigerating for up to eight days; slicing a stipe of a fruiting body of the  pleurotus eryngii  mushroom transverse to the stipe at 90\u00b0 +/\u2212 30\u00b0 relative to the long axis of the stipe to form a plurality of slices having an initial thickness of between 1 mm and 3 mm; soaking the plurality of slices in a solution of maltodextrin until the plurality of slices each contain between 1%-6% of maltodextrin; frying the plurality of slices at ambient pressure in oil at between 145\u00b0 C. and 163\u00b0 C. to reduce the water activity of the plurality of slices; and seasoning the plurality of slices, wherein the plurality of slices have a final thickness of between 0.7 mm and 2.2 mm and a diameter of between about 2 cm and 5 cm, and a water activity of 0.6 or less.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.2
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12138327', '14054323', '14055994', '14444731', '12090845']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7383296947198776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4961741751995284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7141141427678428
- Mean Citation Score: 204.04776
- Max Citation Score: 209.62549
- Similarity Product: 134.8844382082087

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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