PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058414
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["435", "288300"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for locating and selecting a colony of microorganisms on a culture dish and identifying microorganisms in said selected colony using MALDI. The method comprises the automated steps of locating and selecting a colony of microorganisms on a culture dish; obtaining a sample of said selected colony of microorganisms; depositing at least some of said sample of said selected colony of microorganisms on a target plate; and transferring said target plate with said sample in an apparatus for performing MALDI for identification of said sample of said selected colony of microorganisms. A sample of a colony of microorganisms is automatically deposited on a depositing spot such that the sample covers at most approximately half of said one of the depositing spots of the target plate. A suspension of a sample of microorganisms is automatically prepared by automatically picking the sample with a picking tool and submerging the picking tool with said sample in a suspension, after which the picking tool is vibrated in vertical sense only to release the sample from the picking tool.

Claim (Index 80):
The system of  claim 74 , wherein the first and second picking tools are pipetting tools.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72059
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14388430', '15383573', '15663540', '15504549', '13600702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6469225129931611
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5612790958118102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6383581712750259
- Mean Citation Score: 383.133374
- Max Citation Score: 506.5773
- Similarity Product: 288.4077705253958

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

Dataset: test