PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["239", "317000"]

Abstract:
Applicants have created an improved multi-flavor food and/or beverage dispenser including an improved nozzle for injection of flavored liquids into a base liquid. The apparatuses and systems described herein can be used with different food and beverage products including, but not limited to, frozen carbonated beverages, frozen alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, frozen yogurts, frozen ice creams and other dispensable food and beverage products

Claim (Index 21):
A multi-flavor frozen beverage dispenser, comprising:\n a user interface comprising a dispense icon and a plurality of flavor icons each flavor icon associated with at least one additive; a base product freezing chamber; a dispense valve in fluid communication with the freezing chamber and comprising a dispense valve housing having a central bore and at least one injection port communicating from an exterior of the dispense valve housing into the central bore; a nozzle insert positioned within the central bore, and defining a central opening passing there through; first and second O-rings positioned between an outer surface of the nozzle insert and the central bore; the nozzle insert and the central bore defining at least one additive flow channel surrounding the central opening, wherein the at least one additive flow channel is positioned between the first O-ring and the second O-ring and wherein the at least one additive flow channel is aligned with the injection port such that an additive can flow through the injection port into the at least one additive flow channel; the nozzle insert further comprising a plurality of ports communicating from the at least one additive flow channel and into the central opening; a dispense valve stem positioned within the dispense valve, and movable between at least a first position permitting a flow of base product through the central opening, and a second position where flow of base product through the central opening is blocked; a manifold external to the dispense valve and in fluid communication with the injection port, and comprising:\n a plurality of additive inputs, each input configured to receive an at least one additive; \n a purge input configured to receive a purging fluid; \n a check valve associated with each input; and \n an output communicating with the at least one injection port to inject one or more additives or the purging fluid into the injection port; \n a flow diffuser positioned within the central bore and configured to assist mixing of an additive with the base product as the additive and base product flow through the dispense valve; and a controller operable in response to the selection of one or more flavor icons and the dispense icon to move the valve stem to the first position and to cause additives to be dispensed into the base product such that the beverage dispensed by the beverage dispenser is a mixture of the base product and the one or more additives.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.40816
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15018185', '15094176', '16029789', '10938329', '11557069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8057364859927162
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5530525456125064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7804680919546952
- Mean Citation Score: 274.252312
- Max Citation Score: 449.1796
- Similarity Product: 345.3756299542189

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

Dataset: test