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 34):
A valve for use in a beverage dispenser, the valve comprising:\n a valve body comprising a central bore passing through the length of the body and configured to permit the flow of a product through the valve body; the valve body further defining an additive port passing through the body to permit flow of an additive into the central bore; an insert positioned within the central bore, the insert defining an insert central bore generally aligned with the body central bore; the insert and the body defining an additive channel surrounding the insert central bore, the additive channel aligned with the additive port such that additive can flow through the valve body into the additive channel; and the insert comprising a plurality of openings positioned such that additive can flow through the insert into the insert central bore.

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): 0.8055411173780072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5536840442010965
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7803554100603161
- Mean Citation Score: 274.252312
- Max Citation Score: 449.1796
- Similarity Product: 350.1556350662232

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