PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "049000"]

Abstract:
A sensing apparatus for sensing target materials including biological or chemical molecules in a fluid. One such apparatus includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structure having an electrically-insulating layer, a fluidic channel supported by the SOI structure and configured and arranged to receive and pass a fluid including the target materials, and a semiconductor device including at least three electrically-contiguous semiconductor regions doped to exhibit a common polarity. The semiconductor regions include a sandwiched region sandwiched between two of the other semiconductor regions, and configured and arranged adjacent to the fluidic channel with a surface directed toward the fluidic channel for coupling to the target materials in the fluidic channel, and further arranged for responding to a bias voltage. The sensing apparatus also includes an amplification circuit in or on the SOI and that is arranged to facilitate sensing of the target material near the fluidic channel.

Claim (Index 16):
An method for detecting or analyzing a sample, comprising:\n (a) providing an array of sensors and a channel disposed adjacent to said array of sensors, wherein a sensor of said array of sensors comprises (i) a plurality of regions having a common dopant polarity, which plurality of regions comprises a first region and a second region having different doping concentrations; and (ii) a plurality of electrodes in electrical communication with said plurality of regions; (b) using said channel to direct said sample towards said sensor; and (c) using an electrode of said plurality of electrodes to output one or more signals indicative of a change in one or more electrical properties of said plurality of regions in response to (i) a presence or absence of said sample adjacent to said sensor, or (ii) a reaction of said sample with one or more molecular moieties.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01299
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13252315', '14936245', '11167903', '14360090', '12376993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.857613726988414
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5532359245597269
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8271759467455453
- Mean Citation Score: 201.45471
- Max Citation Score: 282.95715
- Similarity Product: 199.2133348328054

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

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