PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["435", "006000"]

Abstract:
This invention is directed to methods and compositions for sorting and/or determining microscopic organisms or cells. The methods and compositions are directed to the use of molecular probes to selectively stain the organisms or cells in combination with the use of binding partners to selectively immobilize the stained organisms or cells to a solid carrier. By combining the selectivity of both molecular probes and binding partners in an orthogonal method for staining and immobilization, these methods and compositions increase both the discriminating power of the assays and/or the certainty of the result obtained therefrom.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for sorting and determining an organism or organisms of interest in a sample or samples; said method comprising:\n treating the sample or samples, or a portion thereof, with one or more detectable or independently detectable molecular probes wherein the one or more molecular probes are selected such that either:\n (i) the detectable probe or probes react with the different organisms to be determined in a way that produces different detectable organisms that possess the same stain; or \n (ii) the independently detectable probes react with the different organisms to be determined in a way that produces different independently detectable organisms that possess an independently detectable stain; and \n contacting the sample or samples, or a portion thereof, with one or more different types of coded beaded supports, wherein each different type of coded beaded support can be independently determined in a suitable particle sorter and wherein to the coded beaded supports have been immobilized one or more binding partners chosen to select a particular organism or organisms such that the detectable or independently detectable organisms become selectively bound to the coded beaded supports as a result of the occurrence of specific binding partner interactions; sorting the different types of coded beaded supports in a suitable particle sorter; and determining the presence, absence, or number of detectable organisms, or each of the independently detectable organisms, immobilized to each different type of coded beaded support and either: (iii) correlating the result with the particular binding partner immobilized to each particle type to thereby determine the presence, absence or number of each of the different organisms of interest in the sample, or portion thereof; or (iv) correlating the result with the code for a sample source from which the sample, or portion thereof, was derived to thereby determine the presence, absence or number of each of the different organisms of interest in each different sample, or portion thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78182
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10017445', '09545084', '10150045', '14043040', '10684971']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5379820794673307
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037297738335995
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5345568489039576
- Mean Citation Score: 236.764284
- Max Citation Score: 270.49765
- Similarity Product: 213.1724274751901

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

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