PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877626
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["702", "089000"]

Abstract:
The present invention covers the integration and utility of accelerometer features into a clinical analysis system. For example, measurement of dynamic acceleration and orientation of a blood-testing instrument with respect to Earth's gravitational field may be used to determine reliability of a test procedure and optionally to provide corrective elements thereof.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of in vitro analysis of a sample comprising blood cells, comprising:\n inserting a test device in a port of an analyzer comprising a computing device and at least one accelerometer; receiving the sample comprising the blood cells in a sample entry port of the test device actuating a pump, thereby moving the received sample in the test device through a conduit over at least one sensor configured to generate an electric signal based on: (i) a concentration of a target analyte in the sample, or (ii) a property of the sample, upon the at least one sensor being contacted with the sample in the conduit during a test cycle of the test device; determining spatial orientation and/or motion of the analyzer during the test cycle of the test device by the computing device using data collected by the at least one accelerometer; comparing at least one of: the determined spatial orientation to a threshold operating spatial plane for the test device, and the determined motion to a threshold rate of motion for the test device; and applying a correction factor to the electric signal generated by the at least one sensor, when at least one of: (i) the determined spatial orientation exceeds the threshold operating spatial plane, and (ii) the determined motion exceeds the threshold rate of motion, wherein the correction factor is at least one of a blood non-homogeneity correction factor, a blood cell sedimentation correction factor, and a blood motion factor; to produce a corrected signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.22222
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14099479', '14099470', '15291454', '14099504', '14099419']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2460002061681385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5361942539336245
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2750196109446871
- Mean Citation Score: 333.81887400000005
- Max Citation Score: 387.74796
- Similarity Product: 361.7669162159944

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

Dataset: test