PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16358897
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["435", "029000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an apparatus for segregating particles on the basis of their ability to flow through a stepped passageway. At least some of the particles are unable to pass through a narrower passageway bounded by a segregating step, resulting in segregation of the particles. The breadth of the leading edge of at least one step of the apparatus is significantly greater than the overall width of the passageway in which the step occurs, permitting high and rapid sample throughput. The apparatus and methods described herein can be used to segregate particles of a wide variety of types. By way of example, they can be used to segregate circulating tumor cells from a human blood sample.

Claim (Index 35):
The method of  claim 33 , which further comprises recovering said tumor cells thus segregated that are unable to pass to the outlet region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68919
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15819052', '15434249', '15434223', '14077811', '15790981']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7428319499410349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5487270043090942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7234214553778407
- Mean Citation Score: 482.666236
- Max Citation Score: 489.3002
- Similarity Product: 276.80152432944783

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

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