PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102227
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "282000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to improving the ability of a hyphenated instrument to analyze a sample benefiting from having the first instrument's analysis of the same sample. A fast switching mechanism can be used as the interface between an ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) and a mass spectrometer (MS) such that the obtained IMS spectrum is converted into a timing diagram that controls the vacuum inlet's size dynamically during analysis of a neutral and/or charged chemical and/or biological species such that a smaller pumping system can be used.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of operating a vacuum inlet for a mass spectrometer comprising, adjusting a mechanism that controls a vacuum inlet structure for the mass spectrometer\n a) to maintain the mass spectrometer at a pressure by dynamically controlling the size of the vacuum inlet at a first state; and b) to pulse the inlet structure according to a timing diagram to allow some part of a sample to enter the mass spectrometer, by temporarily changing the inlet structure to a second state; wherein each of the inlet structure states involves opening or closing the vacuum inlet to a particular size.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43939
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12764808', '14703868', '14338250', '13792043', '13602185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7095364330860828
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887875189798328
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6874615416754578
- Mean Citation Score: 211.345846
- Max Citation Score: 247.75655
- Similarity Product: 195.4347971558809

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

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