PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16216397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["356", "440000"]

Abstract:
Reusable network of spatially-multiplexed microfliuidic channels each including an inlet, an outlet, and a cuvette in-between. Individual channels may operationally share a main or common output channel defining the network output and optionally leading to a disposable storage volume. Alternatively, multiple channels are structured to individually lead to the storage volume. An individual cuvette is dimensioned to substantially prevent the formation of air-bubbles during the fluid sample flow through the cuvette and, therefore, to be fully filled and fully emptied. The overall channel network is configured to spatially lock the fluidic sample by pressing such sample with a second fluid against a closed to substantially immobilize it to prevent drifting due to the change in ambient conditions during the measurement. Thereafter, the fluidic sample is flushed through the now-opened valve with continually-applied pressure of the second fluid. System and method for photometric measurements of multiple fluid samples employing such network of channels.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n temporarily stopping a flow of a second fluid sample through a second cuvette of a second microfluidic channel of the microfluidic chip, for a second duration of that that is sufficient to carry out a second photometric measurement of an analyte in said second fluid sample, to immobilize said second fluid sample and to prevent a second displacement of said second sample with respect to the second cuvette, performing said second photometric measurement by:\n i) transmitting light from a second light source to a second photodetector through the second cuvette containing said second fluid sample that has been delivered to the second cuvette from a second inlet through a second inlet channel that traverses said at least one interface; and \n ii) while said second displacement is prevented, acquiring second data from the second photodetector, said second data representing said analyte in the second fluid sample; \n wherein the first and second durations of time are substantially equal, and wherein said first photometric measurement and said second photometric measurement are carried out at the same time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77419
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15677459', '14443915', '15260565', '14003640', '12758482']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7180707417842878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5349302391869015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6997566915245491
- Mean Citation Score: 265.941272
- Max Citation Score: 386.30148
- Similarity Product: 273.05118853430275

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

Dataset: test