PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865004
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["435", "034000"]

Abstract:
Devices, systems and methods including a sonicator for sample preparation are provided. A sonicator may be used to mix, resuspend, aerosolize, disperse, disintegrate, or de-gas a solution. A sonicator may be used to disrupt a cell, such as a pathogen cell in a sample. Sample preparation may include exposing pathogen-identifying material by sonication to detect, identify, or measure pathogens. A sonicator may transfer ultrasonic energy to the sample solution by contacting its tip to an exterior wall of a vessel containing the sample. Multipurpose devices including a sonicator also include further components for additional actions and assays. Devices, and systems comprising such devices, may communicate with a laboratory or other devices in a system for sample assay and analysis. Methods utilizing such devices and systems are provided. The improved sample preparation devices, systems and methods are useful for analyzing samples, e.g. for diagnosing patients suffering from infection by pathogens.

Claim (Index 43):
A method of measuring an amount of a pathogen-identifying material in a biological sample, comprising:\n Contacting said biological sample with an automated assay device; and Measuring an amount of a pathogen-identifying material in said sample. wherein said automated assay device comprises a sample handling system; a detector, a vessel holder configured to hold a vessel having a vessel wall, said vessel wall having an external face, said vessel being configured to hold a sample; and a sonicator, wherein said sonicator is configured to contact said external face of said vessel wall effective to disrupt a cell in a sample within said vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15140902', '15140993', '14203436', '14479190', '14479241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6556282513298495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5828249734356287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6483479235404274
- Mean Citation Score: 407.45089
- Max Citation Score: 546.3017
- Similarity Product: 410.8618137678206

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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