PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["426", "094000"]

Abstract:
A process for producing powdered cocoa shells as a food ingredient, as replacer for cocoa powder, to impart colouration in food products, and as fat bloom inhibitor in cocoa-based products.

Claim (Index 34):
A cocoa shell powder, characterized by the following features:\n (a) a mean particle size of less than 75 \u03bcm; (b) a final moisture content of <5 weight %; (c) a neutral taste or a light cocoa flavor with slight hints of cinnamon and nuts, free from off-flavours; (d) colour variations covering a range of natural cocoa powder colour up to the colour of black alkalized cocoa powder; (e) a dietary fiber content of about 55 weight %; (f) a total microbiological plate count of less than 5000 colony-forming units per gram; and (g) a bulk density between 0.35 kg/L and 0.52 kg/L.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36
- Patent Class: 426.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13927586', '15008407', '10636931', '13131280', '10648131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7339005476546342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.561881740069017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7166986668960724
- Mean Citation Score: 297.645882
- Max Citation Score: 411.17978
- Similarity Product: 403.96985241728777

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

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