PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["250", "438000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices to rapidly detect trace levels of water soluble fluorescent mineral species such as uranium in aqueous fluids (e.g. water) are provided. The methods and devices involve sequestration of cationic forms of the water soluble fluorescent mineral species (e.g. the uranium oxycation uranyl, UO 2 2+ ) via pressurized fluid flow through a porous silica gel medium, to enhance natural fluorescence and increase the speed of detection.

Claim (Index 9):
A portable, hand held device for detecting water soluble fluorescent mineral species in an aqueous sample, comprising\n a chamber for containing solid state porous silica gel; a directing device which directs under pressure the aqueous sample through the solid state porous silica gel in the chamber; an ultraviolet (UV) excitation source; and a fluorometer; wherein the device is configured to:\n i) permit UV light from the UV excitation source to penetrate the solid state porous silica gel, and \n ii) permit fluorescence emitted from the silica gel to reach the fluorometer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41818
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12937009', '12526312', '13359514', '12274976', '14171957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.672769102069112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4679296463782219
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6522851565000231
- Mean Citation Score: 155.35426
- Max Citation Score: 158.50993
- Similarity Product: 117.05620079558372

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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