PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["374", "029000"]

Abstract:
The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a thermal block assembly having low thermal non-uniformity throughout the thermal block assembly. Accordingly, various embodiments of thermal block assemblies having such low thermal non-uniformity provide for desired performance of bioanalysis instrumentation utilizing such thermal block assemblies.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus comprising:\n a control system; and a thermal block assembly comprising:\n a sample block adapted for receiving a sample support device; \n a heat sink comprising a base having a surface and a plurality of fins pendent the surface, wherein a space between each fin provides flow paths for air passing from an inlet side of the plurality of fins to an outlet side the plurality of fins, wherein the height of the plurality of fins varies to provide flow paths along the heat sink parallel to the surface, the flow paths that are the longest near the base of the heat sink; and \n a plurality of thermal electric devices positioned between the sample block and the heat sink; \n wherein the height of the plurality of fins varies along at least a portion of the heat sink that spans an active footprint of the plurality of thermal electric devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67857
- Patent Class: 374.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12874112', '13029085', '14511529', '15410708', '13082888']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6650327908096828
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5452211392454752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.653051625653262
- Mean Citation Score: 223.70177200000003
- Max Citation Score: 358.02777000000015
- Similarity Product: 316.49610173256764

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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