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 1):
A method for determining an organism of interest in a sample from another organism or organisms to be distinguished; said method comprising:\n treating the sample, or a portion thereof, with at least one detectable molecular probe wherein the molecular probe or probes are selected such that either:\n (i) both the organism of interest and the other organism or organisms react with the molecular probe in a way that produces detectable organisms of interest and a detectable other organism or organisms to be distinguished; or \n (ii) only the organism of interest reacts with the molecular probe in a way that produces only detectable organisms of interest; and \n contacting the sample, or a portion thereof, with a solid carrier to which has been immobilized a binding partner such that if (i) applies then the binding partner is chosen to be reactive only with the detectable organism of interest but not reactive with the detectable other organism or organisms to be distinguished; but if (ii) applies then the binding partner is chosen to be generally reactive with the detectable organism of interest but also may be reactive with the other organism or organisms to be distinguished; and determining the presence, absence, position or number of detectable organisms immobilized to the solid carrier and correlating the result with the presence, absence, or number of the organisms of interest in the sample, or portion thereof.

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): 0.5368088067463608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.509632737995303
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.534091199871255
- Mean Citation Score: 236.764284
- Max Citation Score: 270.49765
- Similarity Product: 192.9024874535889

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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