PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["250", "338500"]

Abstract:
An infrared (IR) sensor and a method of detecting molecular species in a liquid. In one embodiment, the IR sensor includes: (1) an IR light source configured to emit IR light, (2) a sensing element configured to receive the IR light, the IR light generating an evanescent field about the sensing element as the IR light propagates therethrough, molecules in a subject liquid interacting with the evanescent field and affecting a characteristic of the IR light and (3) an IR light detector configured to receive the IR light from the sensing element and detect the characteristic.

Claim (Index 20):
An infrared (IR) sensor, comprising:\n an IR light source; an optical fiber configured to receive IR light from said IR light source; a selective ion-exchange (IX) medium associated with said optical fiber, said IR light generating an evanescent field about said optical fiber as said IR light propagates therethrough, said selective IX medium configured to transport an ion species in a subject liquid about said optical fiber; and an IR light detector configured to receive said IR light from said optical fiber, said ion species affecting said evanescent field and thereby a characteristic of said IR light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17647
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11757584', '12952313', '15168562', '10794937', '13314423']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.689359988887108
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4718408774090579
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.667608077739303
- Mean Citation Score: 166.77390400000004
- Max Citation Score: 181.46469
- Similarity Product: 137.07936819346187

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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