PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996246
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 on a chip, the method comprising:\n providing a plurality of nucleic acid fragments and a plurality of microbeads; encapsulating the plurality of nucleic acids fragments and the plurality of microbeads in an emulsion comprising droplets, wherein each droplet contains one nucleic acid and one microbead; amplifying the nucleic acids fragments, wherein the amplifying also generates bead-bound nucleic acid fragments; breaking the emulsion; and depositing the bead-bound nucleic acid fragments onto a chip for sequencing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 506.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15886212', '13779943', '13629227', '14248991', '13759660']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5331146453026401
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5336121416178279
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5331643949341589
- Mean Citation Score: 341.32564599999995
- Max Citation Score: 368.39645
- Similarity Product: 279.51407319359186

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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