PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "287000"]

Abstract:
Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) systems, devices, and associated methods of operation are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an IMS system includes an ionization region configured to receive and ionize a sample into ionized molecules and a detector configured to detect ionized molecules. The IMS system also includes a drift region in between and directly coupled to both the ionization region and the detector. The drift tube includes a first ion gate proximate the ionization region and a second ion gate proximate the detector. The first and second ion gates are configured to alternately introduce a batch of ionized molecules toward the detector while the other is maintained open, thereby allowing accurate measurement of a drift time of the ionized molecules corresponding to a drift length that is a distance between the first and second ion gates.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for performing ion mobility spectrometry in a drift tube having a first ion gate proximate an ionization region and a second ion gate proximate a detector, the first and second ion gates being arranged along a drift direction of the drift tube, the method comprising:\n receiving and ionizing, using the ionization region, a sample into ionized molecules; applying control signals to the first and second ion gates to cause the first and second ion gates to alternately introduce a batch of the ionized molecules from the ionization region toward the detector with an applied electric field in the drift tube while the other one of the first or second ion gate is maintained open; detecting and obtaining, using the detector, first and second drift times of the ionized molecules corresponding to (i) when the second ion gate is maintained open and (ii) when the first ion gate is maintained open; and deriving a final drift time corresponding to a drift length that is a distance between the first and second ion gates based on both the first and second drift times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07042
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11941939', '14062595', '15665421', '14401676', '13475993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7157249068084401
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4906193349278919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6932143496203853
- Mean Citation Score: 239.413276
- Max Citation Score: 248.43481
- Similarity Product: 190.9007467701704

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

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