PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902669
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["119", "072000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a method of treating poultry hatchlings in a hatchling tray. The method comprises of providing a soft gel form capable of being dispensed through a spray nozzle, providing a spray dispensing apparatus, the apparatus being capable of delivering a predetermined volume of the gel as a plurality of small beadlets through a plurality of nozzles, placing the hatchling tray containing the hatchlings beneath the nozzles of the dispensing apparatus, dispensing the predetermined volume of the soft gel containing the therapeutic agent as small beadlets into the hatchling tray and allowing the hatchlings to consume the beadlets. The present invention is also directed to a dispensing apparatus for dispensing a therapeutic agent in a soft gel into a hatchling tray of poultry hatchlings.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of vaccinating poultry hatchlings in a hatchling tray, the method comprising:\n moving the hatchling tray containing poultry hatchlings beneath nozzle openings of a dispensing apparatus, the nozzle openings spanning a length or a width of the hatchling tray, and dispensing 25 ml to 75 ml of flowable gel containing a therapeutic agent onto the hatchlings in the hatchling tray to form gel beadlets on the hatchlings, wherein the flowable gel contains carageenan.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 119.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15351609', '11793047', '13387362', '13546455', '10232204']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7996135243307516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6265354512322838
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7823057170209049
- Mean Citation Score: 424.520868
- Max Citation Score: 621.79095
- Similarity Product: 543.3554609173447

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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