PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192034
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["204", "451000"]

Abstract:
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward methods and apparatuses for interacting a first liquid and a second liquid in one or more fluidic channels of a capillary structure. The methods and apparatuses can include providing at least one capillary barrier that positions a meniscus of the first liquid at a fluid-interface region using capillary forces within the capillary structure. Additionally, a path is provided along one of the channels for the second liquid to flow toward the fluid-interface region. Additionally, gas pressure is released, via a gas-outflow port, from the fluid-interface region while flow of the first liquid is arrested. Further, the first liquid and the second liquid contact in the fluid-interface region with the capillary barrier holding the first liquid at the fluid-interface region.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the capillary structure is located in a microfluidic chip, the microfluidic chip connected to circuitry configured and arranged to receive data indicative of an interaction between the first liquid and the second liquid and to perform microfluidics analysis of quantification and quality control of one or more of DNA, RNA, proteins and cells in at least one of the first liquid and the second liquid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19048
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15853370', '16175500', '13988055', '14465345', '15400795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.792702677416964
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5374189707034985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7671743067456174
- Mean Citation Score: 238.866596
- Max Citation Score: 387.4643
- Similarity Product: 368.6466458098471

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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