PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16104545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["210", "143000"]

Abstract:
Valves, pumps, detectors, sample loops, fraction collectors and the like are individually incorporated into modules that are mountable at individual mounting sites on a base unit which also supports one or more chromatography columns. Each module includes fluid connections to other modules and a microcontroller joining the module to a computed and monitor through an electronic connector at each mounting site. The fluid connections between the modules and the column(s) are removed from the electronic connections and accessible to the user. A software platform may recognize the modules and their locations, coordinate fluid connections between the modules, and provide a variety of control, monitoring, data generating and data processing functions to generate chromatographic data. The software platform may also provide graphical tools for designing chromatographic methods from a library of phases.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for configuring and operating a plurality of fluid manipulation components joined into a flow scheme for directing fluids to and from a chromatographic separation device, the system comprising:\n a plurality of modules, each of the plurality of modules comprising (a) one of the fluid manipulation components, and (b) a microcontroller that transmits operational signals to the fluid manipulation component in response to commands received from outside the module; a mounting frame comprising a plurality of bays, each of the plurality of bays constructed to receive a single module, and each of the plurality of bays comprising a signal connector that couples to and communicates with the microcontroller of a module mounted in the bay, wherein at least some of the bays are constructed to receive single modules interchangeably with other modules; and a software platform in communication with the microcontroller of each module, the software platform having a user interface configured to: display a library of descriptions of phases usable in a chromatography process; and enable a user to drag a phase description from the library and drop it into a description of a chromatographic method to be performed by the system using the plurality of modules.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67045
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16104443', '15071138', '13591461', '14883329', '13675022']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7917610023803456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746346200334759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7600483641456587
- Mean Citation Score: 164.463932
- Max Citation Score: 196.35971
- Similarity Product: 191.9495209051872

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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