PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977849
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["426", "321000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, processes for improving shelf-life and flavoring of fresh-cut/fresh vegetables, as well as food products produced by these processes. In accordance with the present disclosure, the processes generally include various new combinations of steps such as blanching, air drying, supercritical fluid processing with and without a processing aid, pressurization, de-pressurization, and packaging. The present disclosure further relates to methods of preparing edible food products that incorporate the processed fresh-cut vegetables, as well as the food products produced by these methods.

Claim (Index 20):
A process for improving shelf-life of fresh-cut vegetables, said process comprising the steps of:\n (i) blanching unprocessed vegetable material comprising freshly cut vegetables, wherein said blanching increases cell structure permeability of the freshly cut vegetables, thereby yielding a blanched vegetable preparation that is enhanced for infusion of a processing aid within the cell structure of the freshly cut vegetables via a supercritical fluids procedure; (ii) packaging the blanched vegetable preparation in a sealed gas permeable/breathable container with a defined volume of 0.001% or above of one or more processing aid; (iii) subjecting the blanched vegetable preparation within the sealed gas permeable/breathable container to a supercritical fluids procedure at or above supercritical temperatures and pressures, thereby yielding a pressurized blanched vegetable preparation contained in the gas permeable/breathable container; and (iv) depressurizing the pressurized blanched vegetable preparation quickly to convert the supercritical fluids to a gas phase followed by a slow depressurization stage, thereby yielding a final vegetable product having an improved shelf-life compared to the unprocessed vegetable material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76786
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11943379', '14054323', '12090845', '12373017', '14816784']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6912605074369235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5139096093851383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6735254176317449
- Mean Citation Score: 208.357238
- Max Citation Score: 214.70674
- Similarity Product: 125.52349219189644

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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