PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "011000"]

Abstract:
Optical analytical devices and their methods of use are provided. The devices are useful in the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, including biochemical reactions, such as nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The devices include optical waveguides for illumination of the optical reactions. The devices further provide for the efficient coupling of optical excitation energy from the waveguides to the optical reactions. Optical signals emitted from the reactions can thus be measured with high sensitivity and discrimination using features such as spectra, amplitude, and time resolution, or combinations thereof. The devices of the invention are well suited for miniaturization and high throughput.

Claim (Index 33):
An analytical device comprising:\n an optical waveguide comprising a plurality of optical cores and a cladding; a plurality of nanometer-scale apertures disposed on a surface of the device above the optical waveguide, such that optical energy passing through the plurality of optical cores of the optical waveguide illuminate the plurality of apertures by an evanescent field that emanates from the waveguide; and a plurality of detectors optically coupled to the plurality of nanometer-scale apertures; wherein the optical cores are not in direct alignment between the nanometer-scale apertures and their optically coupled detectors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73529
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14945186', '14107730', '13902113', '13274547', '14949313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8518101937701776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5520900954035051
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8218381839335104
- Mean Citation Score: 360.06230599999986
- Max Citation Score: 431.08575
- Similarity Product: 364.7543858947456

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

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