PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746424
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["435", "034000"]

Abstract:
The abstract particularly describes the nature of this invention and the manner in which it is to be performed:— 1. Specific process and apparatus developed      The inventor has prepared a novel process to speedily and accurately detect pathogens present in a fluid sample, identify the pathogens and it's count and determine the level of their susceptibility levels to multiple antimicrobial agents and portability of the apparatus for speedy determination of antibiotic susceptibility levels of pre-separated pathogens from a biological sample cultured in a multi-well strip, in any field location       2. Disadvantage and shortcomings in earlier method and benefit of this invention      It provides result in a ready to use format in four hours time from the start of the assay as against the waiting period of 48 to 72 hours for a sample cultured and tested in a lab using the conventional clinical microbiology.

Claim (Index 11):
A process for rapidly detecting bacteria in a urine sample along with corresponding susceptibility levels to multiple antibiotics, the process comprising of the following steps:\n a) collecting the urine sample in a sterile container; b) preparing a bacterial growth media aliquot, wherein the bacterial growth media contains chromogenic indicators of bacterial growth; c) aspirating the urine sample through a filter into a syringe; d) separating the filter from the syringe, whereby the filter has the bacteria from the urine sample on it; e) filling a syringe with the bacterial growth media aliquot; f) attaching the filter with bacteria to the syringe with the bacterial growth media aliquot; g) pushing the bacterial growth media through the filter into a container, whereby the bacteria are suspended in the bacterial growth media collected in the container; h) dispensing the suspended bacteria into a plurality of wells in a strip, at least two wells in the plurality of wells having two different antibiotics, and at least another reference well having no antibiotics; i) incubating the wells for not less than 3 hours at a temperature between approximately 30\u00b0 C. to 40\u00b0 C.; and e) detecting, following said incubation, bacterial growth by measuring intensity of a color and turbidity in each of the wells relative to that in the reference well and a specific provided reference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63441
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12198542', '10340569', '08942369', '15055376', '11096904']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5915786501641457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5044915638322952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5828699415309607
- Mean Citation Score: 224.521604
- Max Citation Score: 270.87024
- Similarity Product: 188.382216039505

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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