PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["239", "317000"]

Abstract:
Applicants have created an improved multi-flavor food and/or beverage dispenser including an improved nozzle for injection of flavored liquids into a base liquid. The apparatuses and systems described herein can be used with different food and beverage products including, but not limited to, frozen carbonated beverages, frozen alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, frozen yogurts, frozen ice creams and other dispensable food and beverage products

Claim (Index 28):
A multi-flavor beverage dispenser, comprising:\n a freezing chamber configured to freeze a beverage base product; a dispense valve in fluid communication with the freezing chamber and comprising a valve housing defining at least one injection port passing from an exterior of the valve housing into an interior of the valve housing; a nozzle insert positioned within the valve housing, and defining a central opening passing there through; a first O-ring positioned between the nozzle insert and the valve housing; a second O-ring spaced from the first O-ring, and positioned between the nozzle insert and the valve housing; the nozzle insert and the valve housing defining at least one channel surrounding the central opening, and positioned between the first O-ring and the second O-ring, the channel aligned with the at least one injection port such that a fluid provided to the injection port can flow into the channel; the nozzle insert further defining a plurality of ports passing through the nozzle insert and configured to permit flow of fluid in the channel through the nozzle insert and into the central opening; a valve stem positioned within the valve housing, and movable between at least a first position permitting a flow of base product through the central opening and a second position where the flow of base product through the central opening is blocked; a manifold located external to the valve housing and in fluid communication with the at least one injection port, and comprising: a plurality of additive inputs, each additive input configured to receive an additive, a purge input configured to receive a purging fluid; a plurality of check valves, each valve associated with an individual additive input; and an output fluidly coupled to the injection port and configured to communicate one or more additives or purging fluid to the injection port; and a flow diffuser configured to assist with the mixing of additive with base product as the additive and base product flow through the valve housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40816
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15018185', '15094176', '16029789', '10938329', '11557069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8064243985493567
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5508235398431202
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.780864312678733
- Mean Citation Score: 274.252312
- Max Citation Score: 449.1796
- Similarity Product: 328.51491873278616

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

Dataset: test