PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124904
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["422", "504000"]

Abstract:
Microfluidic structures and methods for manipulating fluids and reactions are provided. Such structures and methods may involve positioning fluid samples, e.g., in the form of droplets, in a carrier fluid (e.g., an oil, which may be immiscible with the fluid sample) in predetermined regions in a microfluidic network. In some embodiments, positioning of the droplets can take place in the order in which they are introduced into the microfluidic network (e.g., sequentially) without significant physical contact between the droplets. Because of the little or no contact between the droplets, there may be little or no coalescence between the droplets. Accordingly, in some such embodiments, surfactants are not required in either the fluid sample or the carrier fluid to prevent coalescence of the droplets. Structures and methods described herein also enable droplets to be removed sequentially from the predetermined regions.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of droplets is separated from one another by the carrier fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09211
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15257017', '14577652', '12525749', '14294737', '11221585']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7559955193851958
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5267840286391545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7330743703105917
- Mean Citation Score: 344.691728
- Max Citation Score: 359.83563
- Similarity Product: 210.4634494803214

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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