PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["250", "338100"]

Abstract:
The invention described herein relates to a method of detecting malaria comprising the steps of: (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam through said ATR substrate in contact with a patient blood sample; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a signal characteristic for one or more lipids in the sample, and (iii) processing said signal and a set of reference library spectra of lipids associated with malaria parasites in order to detect matches and quantify said one or more lipids in the sample. In contrast to the prior art, the present invention relies on detecting lipids instead of hemozoin.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of detecting parasitemia with an ATR-FTIR spectrometer comprising:\n (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam using an ATR substrate of an ATR-FTIR spectrometer in contact with a patient sample, wherein the patient sample is dried onto the ATR substrate; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a spectrum of the patient sample; (iii) processing one or more signals in the spectrum to identify any parasite; and (iv) determining a parasitemia level of the patient sample using one or more signals in the spectrum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64286
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15117149', '15521206', '10502834', '13513465', '12381326']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6593714588015229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6108421481282966
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6545185277342003
- Mean Citation Score: 295.304342
- Max Citation Score: 558.7497599999998
- Similarity Product: 484.55792579761487

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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