PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912473
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["435", "014000"]

Abstract:
Described here are patches and methods for measuring glucose in sweat (and tears and the like). In general, the patches comprise an adhesive layer adapted to bond to skin of an individual, a substrate layer disposed over the adhesive layer and comprising a glucose sensing complex including a chromogen that changes color in the presence of certain concentrations of glucose, and a cover. In typical embodiments, the substrate layer has elements formed to direct and accumulate sweat that migrates from the skin of the individual to the glucose sensing complex. Methods of using the invention can comprise cleaning the skin surface, collecting sweat in a patch comprising this microfluidic constellation of elements, and observing concentrations of glucose collected in the sweat, for example either visually, or by using a smartphone or other computer processing device.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3 , wherein the glucose sensing complex and/or the colorimetric indicator is immobilized using:\n a poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) substituted with styrylpyridinium (SbQ); a chitosan; and/or a polyethyleneimine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91026
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11333837', '12113724', '10264206', '12113508', '14842276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6986444147393905
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899065240817595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6777706256736274
- Mean Citation Score: 182.990624
- Max Citation Score: 185.2764
- Similarity Product: 135.25578426411153

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

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