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 29):
A process for improving shelf-life of fresh-cut vegetables, said process comprising the steps of:\n (i) performing the process according to  claim 1  to yield a first final processed vegetable product; (ii) packaging the first final processed vegetable product in a sealed breathable film bag with a defined volume of one or more co-solvent; (iii) subjecting the first final processed vegetable product within the sealed breathable film bag to a third supercritical fluids procedure along with temperature variations, thereby yielding a pressurized first final processed vegetable product contained in the sealed breathable film bag; and (iv) depressurizing the pressurized first final processed vegetable product quickly to convert the supercritical fluids to a gas phase followed by a slow depressurization stage, thereby yielding a completed vegetable product having an improved shelf-life compared to 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): 0.6900096457315112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5198988933960261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6729985704979627
- Mean Citation Score: 208.357238
- Max Citation Score: 214.70674
- Similarity Product: 114.98225260258911

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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