PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["250", "282000"]

Abstract:
A method of detecting one or more compounds, chemicals or contaminants in a substrate by mass spectrometry is disclosed. A non-living substrate is analysed by contacting the substrate with a diathermy knife. An electric current is applied to the diathermy knife such that the diathermy knife vaporises a portion of the substrate. The vapour is aspirated via a sampling tube pumped by a venturi pump into a vacuum chamber of a mass spectrometer. Analyte molecules are aspirated into the vacuum chamber whereupon they impact a surface of the vacuum chamber and are ionised to form analyte ions which are then mass analysed.

Claim (Index 4):
A method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the probe comprises a diathermy knife or an electrosurgical RF knife.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14727941', '14123548', '10893427', '13055612', '15501599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7547864233817446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5325625989975946
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7325640409433296
- Mean Citation Score: 295.1217180000001
- Max Citation Score: 372.86066
- Similarity Product: 345.56428633531334

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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