PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977824
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["422", "504000"]

Abstract:
Devices, systems, and their methods of use, for generating droplets are provided. One or more geometric parameters of a microfluidic channel can be selected to generate droplets of a desired and predictable droplet size.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for producing droplets of a first liquid in a second liquid, the device comprising:\n a) a first channel having a first depth, a first width, a first proximal end, a first distal end, and a first surface having a first water contact angle; b) a droplet formation region having a second surface having a second water contact angle, wherein the droplet formation region is configured to allow the first liquid to expand in at least one dimension and has at least one inlet and at least one outlet, wherein the second water contact angle is greater than the first water contact angle, and wherein the first distal end is in fluid communication with the at least one inlet; and c) a collection reservoir fluidically connected to the at least one outlet of the droplet formation region and configured to collect the droplets; wherein the first channel and droplet formation region are configured to produce droplets of the first liquid in the second liquid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25806
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15977861', '15977805', '13249212', '13475879', '09953103']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8084389923350463
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5046269873974716
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7780577918412889
- Mean Citation Score: 274.98308
- Max Citation Score: 379.51657
- Similarity Product: 327.65801872179213

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

Dataset: test