PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["008", "115550"]

Abstract:
A method for enhancing bleaching efficacy for treatment of articles, including for example laundry is disclosed. Methods for sanitizing and/or disinfecting and bleaching laundry and other articles is provided by washing the articles with a peroxyformic acid composition at a first pH for effective antimicrobial efficacy, thereafter applying an alkaline source to increase the pH for addition of a bleaching activator and/or catalyst for the bleaching agent at a second pH, and lastly draining the remaining components of the peroxyformic acid composition, and the bleaching agent and bleach activator/catalyst from the articles. The methods can be provided as part of a laundry cleaning operation and can be utilized in industrial and commercial applications.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising a step of adding additional hydrogen peroxide to the wash of the laundry washing machine before or after the addition of the peroxyformic acid composition, before or after the addition of the detergent use solution, before or after the addition of the alkalinity source, and/or before or after the addition of the bleach activator and/or catalyst to increase the bleaching efficacy of the peroxyformic acid composition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16015391', '10754491', '13331104', '13661352', '14500473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7920648160391559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5622713391429861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.769085468349539
- Mean Citation Score: 329.604486
- Max Citation Score: 457.7406
- Similarity Product: 340.6639739690781

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

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