PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "635000"]

Abstract:
A method for monitoring a fluidic system of a liquid chromatography system is characterized by: (a) drawing a fluid into a syringe pump; (b) configuring a valve so as to fluidically couple the pump to either a fluidic pathway through the fluidic system or to a plug that prevents fluid flow; (c) causing the syringe pump to progressively compress the fluid therein or expel the fluid to the fluidic pathway, while measuring a pressure of the fluid; (d) determining a profile of the variation of the measured pressure; (e) comparing the determined profile to an expected profile that depends upon the fluid; and (f) providing a notification of a sub-optimal operating condition or malfunction if the determined profile varies from the expected profile by greater than a predetermined tolerance.

Claim (Index 6):
A method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein\n the step (b) of configuring the valve comprises configuring the valve so as to fluidically couple the pump to a port of the valve that is coupled to a fluidic pathway having a known resistance to fluid flow, and wherein the step (e) of comparing the determined profile to an expected profile comprises comparing the determined profile to an oscillatory profile, the oscillations of said profile relating to mechanical movement within the syringe pump.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93506
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14353278', '14383239', '14400312', '13235083', '15608903']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8103688813968062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5493548408316558
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7842674773402912
- Mean Citation Score: 272.73128800000006
- Max Citation Score: 425.17944000000006
- Similarity Product: 327.07244171387674

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

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