PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "225010"]

Abstract:
A microplate handling apparatus comprising: a base; and a robotic arm mounted on the base; wherein the base has at least one attachment mechanism for attaching a microplate storage device to the base; and wherein the base has at least one instrument alignment mechanism for defining a positional relationship between the robotic arm and an instrument. By providing for attachment of one or more microplate storage devices and one or more instruments to the base, the positional relationships between the robot and the microplate handling/storing devices (i.e. the microplate storage devices and the instruments) can be well-defined without having to secure any of the components (base, microplate storage devices or instruments) to a bench. The whole system can simply sit on top of a bench without any risk of relative movement between the various parts of the system. Instead the whole system is connected together and can be moved as one unit.

Claim (Index 9):
A microplate handling apparatus as claimed in  claim 6 , wherein the robotic arm comprises a rigid bar pivotally mounted at its proximal end around a central axis and wherein the rigid bar comprises no further pivots between said proximal end and a distal end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19737
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11454766', '14517200', '13032303', '12079756', '11205157']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8173636467330804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4913497882043065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.784762260880203
- Mean Citation Score: 158.464348
- Max Citation Score: 183.19719
- Similarity Product: 119.480494551757

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

Dataset: test