PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "635000"]

Abstract:
A method for monitoring a fluidic system of a liquid chromatography system is characterized by: (a) drawing a fluid into a syringe pump; (b) configuring a valve so as to fluidically couple the pump to either a fluidic pathway through the fluidic system or to a plug that prevents fluid flow; (c) causing the syringe pump to progressively compress the fluid therein or expel the fluid to the fluidic pathway, while measuring a pressure of the fluid; (d) determining a profile of the variation of the measured pressure; (e) comparing the determined profile to an expected profile that depends upon the fluid; and (f) providing a notification of a sub-optimal operating condition or malfunction if the determined profile varies from the expected profile by greater than a predetermined tolerance.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for monitoring a fluidic system of a liquid chromatography system comprising a valve, a container having a known fluid therein and a syringe pump having a piston, wherein the syringe pump is fluidically coupled to the valve, the method characterized by:\n (a) drawing the fluid from the container into the syringe pump; (b) configuring the valve so as to fluidically couple the pump to a port of the valve that is coupled to either a fluidic pathway through the fluidic system or to a plug that prevents fluid flow through said port; (c) causing the piston of the syringe pump to move at a predetermined rate in a direction so as to progressively compress the fluid therein or expel the fluid to the fluidic pathway, while measuring a pressure of the fluid; (d) determining a profile of the variation of the measured pressure for the time that the piston is caused to move; (e) comparing the determined profile to an expected profile that depends upon the fluid; and (f) providing a notification of a sub-optimal operating condition or malfunction if the determined profile varies from the expected profile by greater than a predetermined tolerance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93506
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14353278', '14383239', '14400312', '13235083', '15608903']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7909718042179177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5482827332063048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7667028971167564
- Mean Citation Score: 272.73128800000006
- Max Citation Score: 425.17944000000006
- Similarity Product: 339.55983936223987

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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