PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983848
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["222", "107000"]

Abstract:
A container assembly including a pouch, spout and closure is provided. When the pouch and spout are attached, one or more cavities are formed between the inner surfaces of the sidewall of the pouch and the external surface of a mounting portion of the spout. One or both of the spout and pouch include a vent which provides for fluid communication between the cavity and the ambient environment on the outside of the pouch. The vents are configured to allow for pressure equalization of the cavity relative to the outside of the pouch during sterilization of the container assembly.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for sterilizing the contents of a container assembly, the method comprising:\n providing a container assembly including a pouch, a spout, and a closure, wherein the spout includes:\n a flow channel through which the contents may flow from the interior of the pouch to a location outside the pouch; \n a bottom sealing wall surrounding the flow channel, the outer perimeter of the bottom wall configured for forming a fluid-tight interface with the inner surface of the sidewall of the pouch when the pouch and spout are sealed, the contents of the pouch only being accessible to a location outside the pouch through the flow channel when the pouch and spout are sealed together; and \n one or more ribs extending radially outwardly from the flow channel and located above the bottom sealing wall; \n sealing the spout to the pouch to form a fluid-tight interface, wherein when the pouch and spout are sealed together, one or more cavities are formed, each cavity being bounded in its entirety by the inner surface of the sidewall of the pouch and the outer surface of the spout; providing a vent, in one of the spout and the pouch, which provides fluid communication between each cavity and the outside of the pouch; and sterilizing the contents of the container assembly after the spout, pouch and closure have been assembled.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90909
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15866408', '15154680', '15709417', '15437312', '14661740']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7578757192216592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5322736872582395
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7353155160253173
- Mean Citation Score: 293.329294
- Max Citation Score: 370.84598
- Similarity Product: 275.01678405992266

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

Dataset: test