PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742744
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "073000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sampling, sensing, assays and applications. Particularly, the present invention is related to how to make the sampling/sensing/assay become simple to use, fast to results, highly sensitive, easy to use, using tiny sample volume (e.g. 0.5 uL or less), operated by a person without any professionals, reading by mobile-phone, or low cost, or a combination of them.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for analyzing an analyte in a sample, comprising:\n a first plate and a second plate, wherein:\n i. the plates are movable relative to each other into different configurations; \n ii. one or both plates are flexible; \n iii. each of the plates has, on its respective surface, a sample contact area for contacting a sample that contains an analyte; \n iv. one or both of the plates comprise spacers that are fixed with a respective plate, wherein the spacers have pillar shape, a substantially flat top surface, a predetermined substantially uniform height and a predetermined constant inter-spacer distance that is at least about 2 times larger than the size of the analyte, and wherein at least one of the spacers is inside the sample contact area; \n wherein one of the configurations is an open configuration, in which: the two plates are separated apart, the spacing between the plates is not regulated by the spacers, and the sample is deposited on one or both of the plates; and wherein another of the configurations is a closed configuration which is configured after the sample deposition in the open configuration; and in the closed configuration: at least part of the sample is compressed by the two plates into a layer of highly uniform thickness and is substantially stagnant relative to the plates, wherein the uniform thickness of the layer is confined by the inner surfaces of the two plates and is regulated by the plates and the spacers, and has an average thickness equal to or less than 5 \u03bcm; and wherein at the closed configuration, the detector detects the analyte in the at least part of the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 103.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54717
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15742521', '15561014', '13343681', '13862313', '14440852']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7798651693323693
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5749288088370468
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759371533282837
- Mean Citation Score: 252.631658
- Max Citation Score: 483.13782
- Similarity Product: 471.9053918685008

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

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