PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903720
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["422", "503000"]

Abstract:
A microfluidic device comprises a first substrate ( 102 ) made of a first polymer material and a second substrate ( 104 ) made of a second polymer material, the first ( 102 ) and second ( 104 ) substrates having respective bonding surfaces ( 23, 41 ), at least one of the bonding surfaces ( 41 ) having channel formations ( 14 ) so that, when the bonding surfaces ( 23, 41 ) are bonded by surface deformation to one another, the bonded first and second substrates ( 102, 104 ) and the channel formations ( 14 ) form at least part of a microfluidic channel network comprising a plurality of microfluidic channels, wherein one or more indicator pits ( 11 ), separate to the channel formations ( 14 ) defining the microfluidic channel network, are formed in at least one of the bonding surfaces ( 23, 41 ), so that surface deformation caused by the bonding process causes a change of configuration of the one or more indicator pits ( 11 ).

Claim (Index 12):
A method of manufacturing a microfluidic device, the method comprising:\n providing first and second substrates made of respective first and second polymer materials, the first and second substrates having respective bonding surfaces, at least one of the bonding surfaces having channel formations so that, when the bonding surfaces are bonded by surface deformation to one another, the bonded first and second substrates and the channel formations form at least part of a microfluidic channel network comprising a plurality of microfluidic channels, in which one or more indicator pits, separate to the channel formations defining the microfluidic channel network, are formed in at least one of the bonding surfaces; softening at least one of the bonding surfaces in preparation for bonding to each other; and bonding by compression the bonding surfaces of the first and second substrate, the compression causing a change of configuration of the one or more indicator pits.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92188
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14653006', '14333686', '10359959', '13569723', '11719527']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7606377332180471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.519841877887099
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7365581476849523
- Mean Citation Score: 187.90966
- Max Citation Score: 365.89322
- Similarity Product: 355.98070991599565

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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