PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996253
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["506", "002000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides novel microfluidic substrates and methods that are useful for performing biological, chemical and diagnostic assays. The substrates can include a plurality of electrically addressable, channel bearing fluidic modules integrally arranged such that a continuous channel is provided for flow of immiscible fluids.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for preparing nucleic acids for sequencing, the method comprising:\n encapsulating one nucleic acid fragment and one microbead into an aqueous droplet; amplifying the nucleic acid fragment by flowing the droplet through a microfluidic channel to expose the droplet to alternating heating and cooling, wherein the amplifying step results in amplicons of the nucleic acid fragment bound to the microbead; and centrifuging the aqueous droplet comprising the microbead having the amplicons of the nucleic acid fragment bound thereto to recover the microbead from the aqueous droplet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 506.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15996246', '13779943', '13629227', '15886212', '13759660']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5439028085802377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5352442644059829
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5430369541628122
- Mean Citation Score: 354.582226
- Max Citation Score: 377.96854
- Similarity Product: 335.04897043003564

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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