PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["250", "438000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices to rapidly detect trace levels of water soluble fluorescent mineral species such as uranium in aqueous fluids (e.g. water) are provided. The methods and devices involve sequestration of cationic forms of the water soluble fluorescent mineral species (e.g. the uranium oxycation uranyl, UO 2 2+ ) via pressurized fluid flow through a porous silica gel medium, to enhance natural fluorescence and increase the speed of detection.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of detecting water soluble fluorescent mineral species in an aqueous sample, comprising\n i) directing under pressure the aqueous sample through a solid state porous silica gel; ii) irradiating the solid state porous silica gel with UV light during the step of directing; iii) detecting fluorescence emitted from the water soluble fluorescent mineral species bound to the solid state porous silica gel during the step of irradiating, iv) comparing a level of fluorescence detected in step iii) with at least one negative control value; and v) confirming or indicating that the aqueous sample contains the water soluble fluorescent mineral species when the level of fluorescence detected in step iii) exceeds that of the at least one negative control value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41818
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12937009', '12526312', '13359514', '12274976', '14171957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6720737438858287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.470893575816794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6519557270789254
- Mean Citation Score: 155.35426
- Max Citation Score: 158.50993
- Similarity Product: 114.21177922673763

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

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