PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "283000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for separating ions includes an electrode arrangement having a length extending between first and second ends. The first end is configured to introduce a beam of ions into an ion transmission space of the arrangement. An electronic controller applies an RF potential and a DC potential to an electrode of the electrode arrangement, for generating a ponderomotive RF electric field and a mass-independent DC electric field. The application of the potentials is controlled such that a ratio of the strength of the ponderomotive RF electric field to the strength of the mass-independent DC electric field varies along the length of the electrode arrangement. The generated electric field supports extraction of ions having different m/z values at respective different positions along the length of the electrode arrangement. Ions are extracted in one of increasing and decreasing sequential order of m/z ratio with increasing distance from the first end.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus of  claim 7  wherein the segments of one of the four segmented, rod-shaped electrodes have an aperture extending therethrough for supporting extraction of the ions, and wherein the electronic controller is configured to apply the DC potential to the segments of the one of the rod-shaped electrodes as a series of DC potentials that increase monotonically from one segment to next in a direction from the first end toward the second end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10811
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15060474', '11483961', '14786714', '11996236', '13827685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7463456498764747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6007829940903374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.731789384297861
- Mean Citation Score: 333.82263
- Max Citation Score: 553.5209
- Similarity Product: 461.3063037283897

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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