PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16315177
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["426", "592000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a method for the treatment of wood particles for use in the production of alcoholic beverages, comprising the steps of: (a) washing the wood particles with water under agitation at a temperature of at least 60° C.; wherein the wood particles may optionally already be toasted; (b) removing the water from the wood particles; (c) thermally drying the wood particles; (d) toasting the wood particles to obtain wood particles according to the invention; (e) optionally, incubating the wood particles according to the invention with an aroma-bearing liquid, the subsequent removal of any overlying aroma-bearing liquid, and, optionally, the subsequent drying the wood particles according to the invention to obtain aromatised wood particles according to the invention.

Claim (Index 12):
Use of the wood particles according to the invention according to  claim 1  for the production of alcoholic beverages, comprising the following steps:\n a) the provision of an alcoholic beverage with wood particles according to the invention, which may optionally be aromatised, wherein the wood particles may have been newly prepared or already used for alcoholic beverage treatment, and optionally wherein the alcoholic beverage may already have been stored in a barrel; \n b) the incubation of the alcoholic beverage with the wood particles according to the invention; \n c) removing the wood particles according to the invention from the alcoholic beverage incubated therewith; \n d) optionally, the further storage of the incubated alcoholic beverage in a barrel, preferably, in an oak barrel, more preferably in a barrel of American oak; \n e) alternatively optionally one or more further incubations of the alcoholic beverage with wood particles according to the invention, wherein the wood particles according to the invention may optionally be aromatised and wherein the wood particles may have been newly prepared or already used for beverage treatment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25397
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14599820', '15803764', '14333867', '10234973', '14208994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7265194562683853
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867232302040266
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7025398336619495
- Mean Citation Score: 206.997864
- Max Citation Score: 219.66158
- Similarity Product: 165.91825697198863

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

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