PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["435", "287200"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for sequencing a nucleic acid by printing droplets at least some of which contain single nucleotides derived from the nucleic acid is provided. It is characterised by comprising; •a planar substrate having a face with droplet-receiving locations arranged in at least one track parallel to a first axis defining the substrate; ⋅a printer head comprising a plurality of droplet-dispensing nozzle groups juxtaposed above the droplet-receiving locations so that each nozzle group can in turn dispense a droplet into the droplet-receiving locations; •a means for stepping the printer head along the first axis relative to the droplet-receiving locations; ⋅a nucleotide-generating site upstream of the printer head by means of which an ordered stream of single nucleotides is created from the nucleic acid and delivered to a first droplet-dispensing nozzle group; •at least one source of incident electromagnetic radiation adapted to illuminate the droplet-receiving locations and ⋅at least one photodetector to detect adapted to detect fluorescence radiation emitted by each droplet-receiving location after illumination.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the substrate comprises an array of droplet-receiving locations arranged as a plurality of tracks parallel to the first axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87912
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15574005', '14682401', '14433409', '15725646', '14897069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5660145204038471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491029905568391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5585160589203015
- Mean Citation Score: 188.947352
- Max Citation Score: 214.13603
- Similarity Product: 163.02199524303612

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