PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870944
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["008", "115510"]

Abstract:
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of treating a textile with an antimicrobial agent over a plurality of laundry cycles each including a wash cycle and a treatment cycle. The method includes (a) receiving a textile in a wash system for a first laundry cycle, (b) initiating a wash cycle comprising a detergent, (c) initiating a post-detergent treatment cycle comprising dosing the textile with a solution having a predetermined concentration of an antimicrobial agent that comprises a metallic ion, and (c) repeating steps (a)-(c) for each of a plurality of additional laundry cycles. The predetermined concentration is insufficient to achieve a predetermined antimicrobial efficacy for the textile due to the first laundry cycle alone but sufficient to achieve the predetermined antimicrobial efficacy for the textile due to a combination of the first laundry cycle and one or more of the plurality of additional laundry cycles.

Claim (Index 26):
A method of reducing a microbial load in an inventory of textiles comprising a plurality of pieces at a healthcare facility, the method comprising:\n (a) receiving a first portion comprising a portion of the plurality of pieces of the inventory; (b) initiating a laundry cycle comprising a wash cycle and a treatment cycle, wherein the treatment cycle comprises a solution having a predetermined concentration of an antimicrobial agent that comprises a metallic ion; (c) receiving a subsequent portion of the inventory and repeating steps (b) in a subsequent laundry cycle for the subsequent portion, and (d) repeating step (c) until a predetermined amount of the pieces of the inventory have achieved the predetermined antimicrobial efficacy, thereby reducing the antimicrobial load of the inventory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53731
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14460287', '14460262', '15629282', '13757458', '14716871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7885731684001398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938233713991609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759098188700042
- Mean Citation Score: 197.347128
- Max Citation Score: 210.91934
- Similarity Product: 137.21170509233832

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

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