PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932299
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["356", "246000"]

Abstract:
A sensor for isolating, identifying, and quantifying one or more analytes in a sample is provided, the sensor having a metal substrate base and a polymer waveguide disposed on the metal substrate base, the polymer waveguide including an optical channel and a polymer disposed in the optical channel; wherein the polymer waveguide optically couples a first and a second fiber optic cable. Also provided herein are methods of using the sensor for isolating, identifying, and quantifying one or more analytes in a sample, the method including contacting the polymer waveguide with a sample, sequentially heating the sensor to a plurality of temperature thresholds, obtaining an optical output at each temperature threshold, and analyzing differences in sequentially-obtained optical outputs in order to identify and determine concentrations of individual analytes of interest in the sample.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of isolating and quantifying one or more analytes in a sample, the method comprising:\n adjusting a temperature of the polymer waveguide to a first temperature threshold; contacting the polymer waveguide with the sample; whereby the one or more analytes in the sample are captured and pre-concentrated in the polymer waveguide; optionally heating the polymer waveguide to a second temperature threshold and maintaining the second temperature threshold for a predetermined period of time, whereby compounds having a desorption temperature at or below the second temperature threshold are desorbed from the polymer waveguide; transmitting light through the polymer waveguide to provide a first optical output; detecting the first optical output with an optical detector; heating the polymer waveguide to a third temperature threshold and maintaining the third temperature threshold for a predetermined period of time, whereby an analyte of interest having a desorption temperature at or at or below the third temperature threshold and above the second temperature threshold is desorbed from the polymer waveguide; transmitting light through the polymer waveguide to provide a second optical output; detecting the second optical output with the optical detector; determining an absorption spectrum of the analyte of interest by analyzing a difference between the first optical output and the second optical output; and quantifying a concentration of the analyte of interest based on the absorption spectrum of the analyte of interest.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08571
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13394979', '10969849', '09596169', '13182974', '10502950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7004883563558403
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794280331085154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6783823240311078
- Mean Citation Score: 188.108912
- Max Citation Score: 189.81866
- Similarity Product: 136.88282406264304

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

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