PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["435", "007320"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for measuring the concentration of LAL-reactive substances in fluid samples is provided. They include contacting an aqueous sample with a detection reagent to form a prepared sample. A physical property of the prepared sample may be measured to obtain at least one sample measurement characteristic of the prepared sample. Curve fitting may then be used to forecast a concentration of the LAL-reactive substance the aqueous sample will have at a specified time in the future based on the sample measurement and a correlation developed between at least one standard measurement of a physical quality of a solution with a known concentration of a LAL-reactive substance therein. The quality of the sample measurement may be validated using historical data and/or the standard measurement.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for measuring concentration of a LAL-reactive substance in an aqueous sample, said method comprising:\n (a) contacting said aqueous sample with a detection reagent to form a prepared sample; (b) measuring a physical property of said prepared sample to obtain at least one sample measurement characteristic of said prepared sample; and (c) using curve-fitting to:\n forecast a concentration of said LAL-reactive substance said aqueous sample will have at a specified time in the future based on said sample measurement and a correlation developed between at least one standard measurement of a physical property of a solution with a known concentration of a LAL-reactive substance therein; and \n validate the quality of said sample measurement using historical data and/or said standard measurement; \n wherein at least one apparent time delay of a cascade initiation of a reaction is included as a variable in the curve-fitting step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91176
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14434364', '15719464', '13256427', '14434361', '14434312']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5520574524916182
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5588920645771809
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5527409137001744
- Mean Citation Score: 280.20284000000004
- Max Citation Score: 429.94562
- Similarity Product: 351.13811758681777

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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