PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16118985
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["156", "285000"]

Abstract:
A method of making at least a portion of at least one microfluidic actuator having a flexible diaphragm portion and an opposite surface portion, the diaphragm and opposite surface each having opposed faces, at least one of the faces comprising surface-activated PDMS, and the opposed faces being arranged such that when the opposed faces contact each other, they form a fluidic seal, including performing repeated make-and-break-contact protocol on the contacting opposed faces until the tendency for permanent bonds to form between the contacting faces has been neutralized, thereby enabling the diaphragm portion to perform actuated movements to engage and disengage with the opposite surface portion, without the diaphragm sticking to the opposite surface portion.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the make-and-break-contact protocol is performed by applying, respectively, positive and negative air pressure to a back face of the diaphragm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87692
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14479285', '14479288', '15638526', '14479287', '14479283']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9378783353736896
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.569725975676518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9010630994039724
- Mean Citation Score: 444.077152
- Max Citation Score: 538.368
- Similarity Product: 349.4554419708253

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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