PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170620
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["436", "063000"]

Abstract:
An analysis instrument comprises plural modules connected together over a data network, each module comprising an analysis apparatus operable to perform biochemical analysis of a sample. Each module comprises a control unit that controls the operation of the analysis apparatus. The control units are addressable to select an arbitrary number of modules to operate as a cluster for performing a common biochemical analysis. The control units communicate over the data network, repeatedly during the performance of the common biochemical analysis, to determine the operation of the analysis apparatus of each module required to meet the global performance targets, on the basis of measures of performance derived from the output data produced by the modules. The arrangement of the instrument as modules interacting in this manner provides a scalable analysis instrument.

Claim (Index 1):
A module for performing biochemical analysis, the module comprising an electronics unit and a cartridge that is removably attachable to the electronics unit, wherein\n the cartridge comprises: a sensor device that is capable of supporting plural nanopores and being operable to perform biochemical analysis of a sample using the nanopores, the sensor device comprising an electrode arrangement across each nanopore; at least one container for receiving a sample; at least one reservoir for holding material for performing the biochemical analysis; and a fluidics system configured to controllably supply a sample from the at least one container and material from the at least one reservoir to the sensor device, and the electronics unit contains a drive circuit and a signal processing circuit arranged to be connected to the electrode arrangement across each nanopore when the cartridge is attached to the electronics unit, the drive circuit being configured to generate drive signals for performing the biochemical analysis and the signal processing circuit being arranged to generate output data representing the results of the biochemical analysis from electrical signals generated from the electrode arrangement across each nanopore.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01449
- Patent Class: 436.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13512937', '14812510', '15419121', '13876911', '15519325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6351966860715869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481309883434838
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6198080058079121
- Mean Citation Score: 197.472042
- Max Citation Score: 257.38602000000003
- Similarity Product: 227.9101542166329

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

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