PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102518
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["366", "338000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are fluidic mixers having bifurcated fluidic flow through toroidal mixing elements. The mixers operate, at least partially, by Dean vortexing. Accordingly, the mixers are referred to as Dean Vortex Bifurcating Mixers (“DVBM”). The DVBM utilize Dean vortexing and asymmetric bifurcation of the fluidic channels that form the mixers to achieve the goal of optimized microfluidic mixing. The disclosed DVBM mixers can be incorporated into any fluidic (e.g., microfluidic) device known to those of skill in the art where mixing two or more fluids is desired. The disclosed mixers can be combined with any fluidic elements known to those of skill in the art, including syringes, pumps, inlets, outlets, non-DVBM mixers, heaters, assays, detectors, and the like.

Claim (Index 1):
A mixer configured to mix at least a first liquid and a second liquid, the mixer comprising an inlet channel leading into a plurality of toroidal mixing elements arranged in series, wherein the plurality of toroidal mixing elements includes a first toroidal mixing element downstream of the inlet channel, and a second toroidal mixing element in fluidic communication with the first toroidal mixing element via a first neck region, and wherein the first toroidal mixing element defines a first neck angle between the inlet channel and the first neck region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81013
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15522720', '15796646', '15687218', '15029993', '15681013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7502235403916699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092067948550896
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7261218658380119
- Mean Citation Score: 184.475003
- Max Citation Score: 335.2913
- Similarity Product: 288.1201366520762

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

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