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 12):
A digital microfluidic (DMF) apparatus with parallel droplet detection, the apparatus comprising:\n a first plate having a first hydrophobic layer; a second plate having a second hydrophobic layer; a plurality of actuation electrodes in the first plate; one or more ground electrodes in the second plate; a voltage source; a forward/reverse switch connected between the voltage source, the one or more ground electrodes, and the plurality of actuation electrodes, wherein the forward/reverse switch is configured to switch a connection between the voltage source and either the one or more ground electrodes or the plurality of actuation electrodes; a plurality of electrode switches, wherein an electrode switch from the plurality of electrode switches is connected between the forward/reverse switch and each actuation electrode of the plurality of actuation electrodes and is configured to allow an application of voltage from the voltage source to the electrode; a plurality of sensing circuits, wherein a sensing circuit from the plurality of sensing circuits is connected between each electrode and the electrode switch connected between the forward/reverse switch and each actuation electrode; and a controller configured to control the forward/reverse switch and the plurality of electrode switches through a switch controller to move one or more droplets within a gap between the first plate and the second plate when the forward/reverse switch connects the voltage source to the plurality of electrodes, and further configured to determine the location of one or more droplets relative to the plurality of actuation electrodes when the forward/reverse switch connects the voltage source to the one or more ground electrodes based on input from each of the sensing circuits.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43902
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15579239', '15579455', '14881889', '14680671', '13739635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7444974051184864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867261893314763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187202835397855
- Mean Citation Score: 206.558778
- Max Citation Score: 222.36862
- Similarity Product: 159.72550755277035

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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