PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772162
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["156", "250000"]

Abstract:
A device for sealing liquids inside a selected zone of a fluidic path that runs in a fluidic assembly and then for cutting or removing the thus sealed zone in a spillage- and contamination-free manner from said fluidic assembly. Methods of performing such contamination- and leakage-free sealing and cutting of selected fluidic path zones comprising a liquid of interest from the remaining parts of fluidic assemblies, preferably in a fully automated manner.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for sealing and cutting through a fluidic path in a fluidic assembly, said method comprising the steps of:\n providing a fluidic assembly having (i) at least one fluidic channel forming a path for fluidic flow and (ii) a thermoplastic fluidic channel zone comprising a thermoplastic material that is meltable when exposed to a temperature equal to or above a threshold temperature specific to said thermoplastic material; providing a heating element capable of producing the temperature equal to or above the threshold temperature specific to said thermoplastic material; and locally heating at least a part of the thermoplastic fluidic channel zone with the heating element for a time sufficient to melt the thermoplastic material to seal the at least one fluidic channel by the thus molten thermoplastic material; cutting the at least one sealed fluidic channel within the molten thermoplastic material such that it is separated into at least two fluidic channel sections detached from each other, wherein at least one of the fluidic channel sections is sealed from at least one side by at least a part of the molten thermoplastic material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63043
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15260565', '14003640', '15117053', '10067828', '15447581']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.880585682628194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4808737033935044
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.840614484704725
- Mean Citation Score: 165.34044
- Max Citation Score: 169.92061
- Similarity Product: 116.07000120331227

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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