PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866408
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["222", "092000"]

Abstract:
A spout includes a mounting portion to which a pouch of a container assembly is sealed. The exterior of the mounting portion is defined by a smooth, non-angled surface free of edges or sharp transition portions, and is defined along its height by a generally sinusoidal, wave-like pattern formed by alternating peaks and troughs. The exterior of the mounting portion is structured such that the ratio of the length of the portion of the mounting portion exterior surface extending between adjacent peaks to the height between adjacent peaks is minimized to no more than 10%, and more preferably no more than 5%. By minimizing this ratio, the amount that a pouch will stretch if it is pushed into the cavities formed between adjacent peaks of the mounting portion (e.g. during an HPP process) is minimized, thereby preventing damage to the pouch and/or attachment between the pouch and spout.

Claim (Index 8):
A spout for attachment to a flexible pouch comprising:\n a cylindrical tube surrounding a central channel, the tube having an inlet end and an outlet end; a mounting portion located along a lower portion of the tube, the mounting portion comprising:\n first and second walls, each of the first and second walls having an interior surface, an exterior surface, a first vertical edge and a second vertical edge, the first and second walls attached to one another along their first and second vertical edges; and \n an opening defined between the interior surfaces of the first and second walls, the opening being in fluid communication with the inlet end of the tube so that contents of a pouch may be accessed from outside of the pouch through the central channel and the opening; \n wherein the exterior surfaces of each of the first and second walls define a curvilinear wave-like pattern formed of alternating peaks and troughs, the pattern of each of the first and second exterior surfaces extending along a height of the mounting portion from bottom ends of the first and second walls to top ends of the first and second walls.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01235
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15709417', '15154680', '15363174', '14661740', '14182130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.791612607254947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5188667663822255
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7643380231676749
- Mean Citation Score: 290.8148
- Max Citation Score: 350.43197999999984
- Similarity Product: 262.80727510105123

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

Dataset: test