PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947318
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["426", "002000"]

Abstract:
Compositions and methods are provided to increase the palatability of dry pet foods. The compositions comprise sorbic acid and/or a salt thereof. The compositions and methods increase the palatability without loss of crunchiness of the dry kibbles over an extended time period. The sorbic acid and/or salt thereof can be used in the base composition of the dry pet food and/or in a coating on the dry pet food, and the sorbic acid and/or salt thereof can be used without affecting the product structure.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the salt of sorbic acid is in both the basal body and the coating.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97778
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15816605', '10715198', '14097723', '13378856', '10598681']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7647855078747566
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5206766013124491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7403746172185258
- Mean Citation Score: 217.859264
- Max Citation Score: 236.94637000000003
- Similarity Product: 135.49796571419716

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