PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16379086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["494", "002000"]

Abstract:
A continuous flow centrifuge bowl includes a rotatable outer body, and a top and bottom core that are rotatable with the outer body. The bottom core has a wall extending proximally from a bottom wall. The proximally extending wall is radially outward from at least a portion of the top core and, together with the top core, defines a primary separation region in which initial separation of the whole blood occurs. The bowl may also have a secondary separation region located between the top core and the outer body, and a rotary seal that couples an inlet port and two outlet ports to the outer body. The inlet port may be connected to an inlet tube that extends distally into a whole blood introduction region. Additionally, one of the outlet ports may be connected to an extraction tube that extends into a region below the bottom core.

Claim (Index 1):
A centrifuge bowl for continuous separation of whole blood comprising:\n an outer body rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the centrifuge bowl, the outer body having a main body defining an interior cavity, a neck portion extending proximal to the main body, and a shoulder connecting the main body and the neck portion; a top core located within and rotatable with the outer body, the top core being coaxial with the outer body and including a chimney extending through the top core along the longitudinal axis of the centrifuge bowl; a separation region located between the top core and the outer body, rotation of the centrifuge bowl separating the whole blood within the separation region into a first blood component and a second blood component; an inlet port for introducing whole blood into the centrifuge bowl; an inlet tube fluidly connected to and extending distally from the inlet port and through the chimney, the inlet tube configured to introduce the whole blood into an introduction region; a first blood component outlet port for drawing the first blood component out of the centrifuge bowl; a first blood component extraction tube extending from the first blood component outlet port to a first blood component extraction region; a second blood component outlet port fluidly connected to the separation region and for drawing a second blood component from the centrifuge bowl; a centrifuge bowl rotary seal attached to the outer body and fluidly coupling the inlet port, first blood component outlet port, and second blood component outlet port to the outer body; and an optical sensor located on the shoulder of the outer body, the optical sensor configured to monitor an interface between the first blood component and the second blood component within the separation region, the optical sensor configured to control the operation of a first blood component pump based upon a location of the interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22535
- Patent Class: 494.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14072220', '13898743', '15594933', '11304092', '12102407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7458173916711196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5881595584518716
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7300516083491948
- Mean Citation Score: 340.60101999999995
- Max Citation Score: 509.64545
- Similarity Product: 502.7713852636039

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

Dataset: test