PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["435", "006000"]

Abstract:
This invention is directed to methods and compositions for sorting and/or determining microscopic organisms or cells. The methods and compositions are directed to the use of molecular probes to selectively stain the organisms or cells in combination with the use of binding partners to selectively immobilize the stained organisms or cells to a solid carrier. By combining the selectivity of both molecular probes and binding partners in an orthogonal method for staining and immobilization, these methods and compositions increase both the discriminating power of the assays and/or the certainty of the result obtained therefrom.

Claim (Index 35):
A method for sorting and determining different organisms of interest in a sample; said method comprising:\n treating the sample, or a portion thereof, with one or more detectable or independently detectable molecular probes wherein the one or more molecular probes are selected such that either:\n (i) the detectable probe or probes react with the different organisms to be determined in a way that produces different detectable organisms that possess the same stain; or \n (ii) the independently detectable probes react with the different organisms to be determined in a way that produces different independently detectable organisms that possess an independently detectable stain; and \n contacting the sample, or a portion thereof, with a solid carrier array to which binding partners have been immobilized at unique identifiable locations such that the detectable or independently detectable organisms are selectively bound to the locations on the array as a result of the occurrence of specific binding partner interactions; and determining the presence, absence or number of the detectable or independently detectable organisms immobilized at the many different locations of the array and correlating the result with the particular binding partner immobilized to each location on the array to thereby determine the presence, absence or number of the different organisms of interest in the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78182
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10017445', '09545084', '10150045', '14043040', '10684971']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5378677434400052
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043052241433754
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5345114915103422
- Mean Citation Score: 236.764284
- Max Citation Score: 270.49765
- Similarity Product: 211.19669306095244

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

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