PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["159", "003000"]

Abstract:
A system and method is provided for processing milk for spray drying. The system may have a pre-evaporator configured to receive and concentrate the milk stream producing an intermediate concentration milk. The system may also have a first buffer tank configured to receive the intermediate concentration milk and store the intermediate concentrate milk at a reduced temperature. The system may further have a first finisher evaporator configured to draw the intermediate concentration milk from the first buffer tank and concentrate the intermediate concentration milk producing a final concentration milk. The final concentration milk may be suitable for spray drying.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of processing a milk stream, comprises:\n concentrating the milk stream using a pre-evaporator thereby producing an intermediate concentration milk and directing the intermediate concentration milk to at least one of a first buffer tank and a second buffer tank; cooling and accumulating a holdup volume of intermediate concentration milk in at least one of the first buffer tank and the second buffer tank, wherein the intermediate concentration milk is cooled; drawing and reheating the intermediate concentration milk from at least one of the first buffer tank and the second buffer tank; and concentrating the reheated intermediate concentration milk from the buffer tank using at least one of a first finisher evaporator and a second finisher evaporator, thereby producing a final concentration milk; wherein the holdup volume of intermediate concentration milk is accumulated by the pre-evaporator producing the intermediate concentration milk at a rate greater than a rate at which the first finisher evaporator or the second finisher evaporator draws the intermediate concentration milk from the buffer tank.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4186
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14923814', '13050931', '14170164', '15641104', '10378485']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6335323948329973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6608156426403616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6362607196137338
- Mean Citation Score: 234.854214
- Max Citation Score: 554.538
- Similarity Product: 477.5410743570328

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

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