PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["422", "512000"]

Abstract:
A mechanically-actuated vacuum-controlled fluid collection system includes a mechanically-actuated vacuum controller (MA VC) to draw fluid into a chamber through the opening to the chamber. The system may include a releasable seal to seal the opening, and the MAVC may include a spring-loaded plunger to create a vacuum within the chamber when sealed. The system includes multiple fluid chambers, and may further include a single actuator or multiple corresponding actuators. The system may be configured to add a pre-loadable reagent to fluid drawn into the one or more chambers, and may be configured to add the reagent in proportion to a volume of the fluid. The system may be controllable to release collected fluid to another device, such as for assay and/or transport. The system may be configured to draw a liquid biological sample such as urine, and may include a fluid interface to draw fluid from a biological sample container.

Claim (Index 1):
A fluid collection device, comprising:\n a housing having a fluid chamber configured to receive, measure and retain a fluid and an opening to the fluid chamber; a mechanically-actuated vacuum controller to draw a fixed, predetermined measured amount of the fluid into the fluid chamber through the opening;\n the mechanically-activated vacuum controller being further configured to draw in a fixed, measured volume of fluid through the opening, and to thereby store the fixed, measured volume of fluid in the fluid chamber, as the fixed, measured volume of fluid is drawn sequentially through the opening and then into the fluid chamber by the mechanically-actuated vacuum controller; and \n the fluid chamber further configured to hold the fixed, measured amount of fluid for transport within the device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21622
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14098280', '13945900', '10835094', '12876879', '12429590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7832807689596624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4642037640988741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7513730684735835
- Mean Citation Score: 141.89824
- Max Citation Score: 229.49966
- Similarity Product: 200.0086562484813

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

Dataset: test