PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16324420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["204", "450000"]

Abstract:
Digital microfluidics apparatuses (e.g., devices and systems) configured to determine provide feedback on the location, rate of movement, rate of evaporation and/or size (or other physical characteristic) of one or more, and preferably more than one, droplet in the gap region of a digital microfluidics (DMF) apparatus.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein each sensing circuit of the plurality of sensing circuits comprises the charging circuit, a discharging circuit, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), further wherein the controller is configured to sequentially activate the discharge circuit, then the charging circuit, and to receive the charged voltage of the charging circuit from the ADC in parallel for all of the sensing circuits of the plurality of sensing circuits.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43902
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15579239', '15579455', '14881889', '14680671', '13739635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7653261975140764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955362542549256
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7383472031881614
- Mean Citation Score: 206.558778
- Max Citation Score: 222.36862
- Similarity Product: 147.25556937077522

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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