PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977849
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["426", "321000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, processes for improving shelf-life and flavoring of fresh-cut/fresh vegetables, as well as food products produced by these processes. In accordance with the present disclosure, the processes generally include various new combinations of steps such as blanching, air drying, supercritical fluid processing with and without a processing aid, pressurization, de-pressurization, and packaging. The present disclosure further relates to methods of preparing edible food products that incorporate the processed fresh-cut vegetables, as well as the food products produced by these methods.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for improving shelf-life of fresh-cut vegetables, said process comprising the steps of:\n (i) blanching unprocessed vegetable material comprising freshly cut vegetables, wherein said blanching increases cell structure permeability of the freshly cut vegetables, thereby yielding a blanched vegetable preparation that is enhanced for accelerated moisture removal via a supercritical fluids procedure; (ii) subjecting the blanched vegetable preparation to a first supercritical fluids procedure to remove a first percentage of moisture therefrom, wherein the first supercritical fluids procedure is performed with a processing aid, thereby yielding an intermediate processed vegetable product infused with the processing aid; and (iii) performing a second supercritical fluids procedure to the intermediate processed vegetable product to remove a second percentage of moisture therefrom, wherein the second supercritical fluids procedure is performed without the processing aid, thereby yielding a final processed vegetable product having improved shelf-life compared to that of the unprocessed vegetable material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76786
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11943379', '14054323', '12090845', '12373017', '14816784']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6918342613460863
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.511156630369773
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.673766498248455
- Mean Citation Score: 208.357238
- Max Citation Score: 214.70674
- Similarity Product: 130.36615015472174

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

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