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 3):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein one or more indicator pits are arranged adjacent to features of the microfluidic channels including at least one of: a junction between microfluidic channels; an inlet of a microfluidic channel from a port, reservoir or chamber; an outlet of a microfluidic channel from a port, reservoir or chamber; a bend in a microfluidic channel; and a portion of a microfluidic channel where an electrode is arranged.

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): 0.7816151450923514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5221415741308528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7556677879962016
- Mean Citation Score: 187.90966
- Max Citation Score: 365.89322
- Similarity Product: 355.5228749350631

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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