PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16229686
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["422", "028000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus comprises a dispensing system and a sanitizing system. The apparatus has a dispensing mode and sanitizing mode. The dispensing system may comprise a first valve and at least one component, the at least one component having an inner surface. The first valve is opened to send a free-flowing material to the at least one component when the apparatus is in the dispensing mode. The first valve is closed when the apparatus is in the sanitizing mode. The sanitizing system comprises a processing unit having a discharge cell configured to initiate a cold plasma discharge in an air flow. A tank may be configured to receive the air flow from the discharge cell of the processing unit and expose water in the tank to the air flow for a time sufficient to provide dissolution of ozone from the air flow into the water and form ozone-containing water.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n opening a first valve located at an outlet of a beverage concentrate supply of a beverage dispensing system to send the beverage concentrate to a mixer; mixing the beverage concentrate with water in the mixer when a combination of a dispensing system and a sanitizing system is in a beverage dispensing mode; closing the first valve; providing an air flow through a discharge cell of the sanitizing system, the discharge cell comprising a discharge chamber and discharge electrodes; initiating in the discharge cell a cold plasma discharge in the air flow using the discharge electrodes; after initiating the cold plasma discharge in the air flow, exposing water to the air flow for time sufficient to provide dissolution of ozone and other ions and chemical radicals from the air flow into the liquid and forming ozone-containing water; sending the ozone-containing water from the sanitizing system to an interior surface of at least one component of a beverage dispensing system to sanitize the interior surface of the at least one component; wherein the exposing of the water to the air flow from the discharge chamber occurs in a tank of the sanitizing system for a time sufficient to provide dissolution of ozone from the air flow into the water and forming ozone-containing water; opening a second valve, the second valve located at an outlet of the sanitizing system; wherein the beverage dispensing system in combination with the sanitizing system is switched from a dispensing mode to a sanitizing mode when the first valve is closed and the second valve is opened.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51613
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13664883', '14822025', '14831993', '13665026', '12654400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.776964689943372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5137228224315511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.75064050319219
- Mean Citation Score: 272.905848
- Max Citation Score: 334.19135
- Similarity Product: 279.6329889239609

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

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