PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903720
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["422", "503000"]

Abstract:
A microfluidic device comprises a first substrate ( 102 ) made of a first polymer material and a second substrate ( 104 ) made of a second polymer material, the first ( 102 ) and second ( 104 ) substrates having respective bonding surfaces ( 23, 41 ), at least one of the bonding surfaces ( 41 ) having channel formations ( 14 ) so that, when the bonding surfaces ( 23, 41 ) are bonded by surface deformation to one another, the bonded first and second substrates ( 102, 104 ) and the channel formations ( 14 ) form at least part of a microfluidic channel network comprising a plurality of microfluidic channels, wherein one or more indicator pits ( 11 ), separate to the channel formations ( 14 ) defining the microfluidic channel network, are formed in at least one of the bonding surfaces ( 23, 41 ), so that surface deformation caused by the bonding process causes a change of configuration of the one or more indicator pits ( 11 ).

Claim (Index 10):
The device of  claim 1 , in which at least one pair of pits is provided at corresponding positions on the bonding surfaces of the first and second substrates so as to provide an alignment indicator for assembly of the device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92188
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14653006', '14333686', '10359959', '13569723', '11719527']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7829163436659741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5232141758212862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7569461268815053
- Mean Citation Score: 187.90966
- Max Citation Score: 365.89322
- Similarity Product: 271.4149054085779

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

Dataset: test