PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16105042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["506", "009000"]

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to droplet libraries and to systems and methods for the formation of libraries of droplets. The present invention also relates to methods utilizing these droplet libraries in various biological, chemical, or diagnostic assays.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for detecting target molecules in a fluid sample, the method comprising:\n forming, in a microfluidic device, a plurality of separated partitions of fluid from a fluid sample comprising target molecules, wherein each of the plurality of partitions of fluid comprises a subvolume of the fluid sample, a single bead comprising a reactive component for binding a target molecule to the bead, and a detection component for binding to a target molecule bound to a bead to thereby form an immunocomplex, wherein the detection component comprises a detectable label; and monitoring each of the plurality of partitions of fluid for detection of an event associated with contents of one or more of the plurality of partitions of fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 506.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13487030', '14248991', '14122766', '15331452', '13759660']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4940640248966658
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.502225927417861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4948802151487853
- Mean Citation Score: 243.285714
- Max Citation Score: 263.08627
- Similarity Product: 192.5163605043805

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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