PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["219", "762000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling a microwave heating system is provided. The method may be used with a system having a liquid-filled microwave heating chamber and includes measuring the value of one or more microwave system parameters. Suitable parameters can include, for example, net microwave power discharged, the temperature of the liquid in the microwave chamber, the flow rate of liquid through the microwave chamber, and the speed of the conveyance system disposed within the microwave chamber. The measured value of the selected parameter is then compared to a target value for that parameter in order to determine a difference. Based on the difference, one or more actions can be taken in order to start, stop, or alter the operation of the microwave heating system.

Claim (Index 30):
The method of  claim 25 , wherein during said heating said articles are heated in said microwave heating chamber by at least about 25\u00b0 C. in a time period in the range of from 60 seconds to 10 minutes, further comprising prior to said passing, thermalizing said articles through a thermalization chamber upstream of said microwave heating chamber to provide a plurality of thermalized articles having a substantially uniform temperature so that at least 85 percent of said articles exiting said thermalization chamber have a temperature within about 5\u00b0 C. of one another, further comprising, subsequent to said heating, maintaining the temperature of the articles at or above a minimum temperature for a time period in the range of from about 2 minutes to about 16 minutes in a holding chamber, and subsequent to passing said articles through said holding chamber, cooling said articles in a quench chamber downstream of said holding chamber by at least about 30\u00b0 C., wherein said articles are submerged in a liquid medium during at least a portion of said thermalizing, said heating, said maintaining, and said cooling, and wherein said articles are pasteurized or sterilized at a rate of at least 15 packages per minute per convey line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 82.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07576
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13799799', '13799835', '13799610', '13799991', '13799746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8559168286520661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5593540341476589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8262605492016254
- Mean Citation Score: 425.567202
- Max Citation Score: 457.305
- Similarity Product: 328.8761272868514

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

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