PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "283000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for separating ions includes an electrode arrangement having a length extending between first and second ends. The first end is configured to introduce a beam of ions into an ion transmission space of the arrangement. An electronic controller applies an RF potential and a DC potential to an electrode of the electrode arrangement, for generating a ponderomotive RF electric field and a mass-independent DC electric field. The application of the potentials is controlled such that a ratio of the strength of the ponderomotive RF electric field to the strength of the mass-independent DC electric field varies along the length of the electrode arrangement. The generated electric field supports extraction of ions having different m/z values at respective different positions along the length of the electrode arrangement. Ions are extracted in one of increasing and decreasing sequential order of m/z ratio with increasing distance from the first end.

Claim (Index 11):
The mass spectrometer system of  claim 9  comprising a plurality of ion storage cells in fluid communication with the ion flux separator, wherein each ion storage cell of the plurality of ion storage cells is disposed between the ion flux separator and a respective one of the plurality of sequential mass analyzers, wherein filling and emptying of each ion storage cell is controlled using a separate gate associated therewith, such that the accumulation of ions within each ion storage cell is independent of the accumulation of ions within other ion storage cells.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10811
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15060474', '11483961', '14786714', '11996236', '13827685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7249038749549864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5933322619679805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7117467136562858
- Mean Citation Score: 333.82263
- Max Citation Score: 553.5209
- Similarity Product: 439.9459244586885

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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