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 17):
The method of  claim 13 , wherein applying voltage to one or more ground electrodes in the second plate comprises applying voltage to the one or more ground electrodes without applying voltage to the actuation electrodes in the first plate.

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): 0.7615001564410858
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5175975979303304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7371099005900102
- Mean Citation Score: 206.558778
- Max Citation Score: 222.36862
- Similarity Product: 105.01598966679812

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

Dataset: test