PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943093
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["436", "045000"]

Abstract:
An automatic analyzer cartridge, spinnable about a rotational axis, has fluid and aliquoting chambers, a metering chamber connected to a vent that is nearer to the rotational axis than the metering chamber, first and second ducts connecting the fluid and aliquoting chambers, and the metering and aliquoting chambers, respectively. Metering chamber side walls taper away from a central region, wherein capillary action next to the walls is greater than in the central region. Fluid flows to the metering chamber using capillary action via the second duct that has an entrance and exit in the aliquoting and metering chambers, respectively; the exit being closer to the rotational axis than the entrance. A downstream fluidic element connects to the metering chamber via a valve. A fluidic structure receives and processes a biological sample into the processed biological sample and has a measurement structure that enables measurement of the processed biological sample.

Claim (Index 17):
A system comprising:\n a cartridge spinner configured to receive and rotate a cartridge according to  claim 7 ; and a controller electrically connected to the cartridge spinner and configured to:\n control the cartridge spinner to control the rotational rate of the cartridge to transport the fluid from the fluid chamber to the aliquoting chamber via the first duct; \n control the cartridge spinner to permit the fluid in the reservoir to flow into the second duct and to fill the metering chamber a first time; \n control the cartridge spinner to increasing the rotational rate of the cartridge to transfer a first part of the fluid from the metering chamber and to transfer a first remaining part back into the aliquoting chamber; \n control the cartridge spinner to decrease the rotational rate of the cartridge to permit the fluid in the reservoir to flow into the second duct and to fill the metering chamber a second time; and \n control the cartridge spinner to increasing the rotational rate of the cartridge to transfer a second part of the fluid from the metering chamber and to transfer a second remaining part back into the aliquoting chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26389
- Patent Class: 436.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15352672', '15833476', '15352680', '15352689', '15807802']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7634526779543693
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5873810015671762
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.74584551031565
- Mean Citation Score: 451.1894740000001
- Max Citation Score: 535.75586
- Similarity Product: 471.3521733888578

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

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