PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058414
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["435", "288300"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for locating and selecting a colony of microorganisms on a culture dish and identifying microorganisms in said selected colony using MALDI. The method comprises the automated steps of locating and selecting a colony of microorganisms on a culture dish; obtaining a sample of said selected colony of microorganisms; depositing at least some of said sample of said selected colony of microorganisms on a target plate; and transferring said target plate with said sample in an apparatus for performing MALDI for identification of said sample of said selected colony of microorganisms. A sample of a colony of microorganisms is automatically deposited on a depositing spot such that the sample covers at most approximately half of said one of the depositing spots of the target plate. A suspension of a sample of microorganisms is automatically prepared by automatically picking the sample with a picking tool and submerging the picking tool with said sample in a suspension, after which the picking tool is vibrated in vertical sense only to release the sample from the picking tool.

Claim (Index 75):
The system of  claim 74  further comprising:\n an automatic suspension medium dispenser communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, \n wherein the one or more processors are further arranged for automatically controlling the operation of the automatic suspension medium dispenser, and \n wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:\n when the provided measurement of the turbidity is above the first threshold value, control the automatic suspension medium dispenser to dispense an additional amount of suspension medium into the suspension tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72059
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14388430', '15383573', '15663540', '15504549', '13600702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6153459375893782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.568895824869824
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6107009263174228
- Mean Citation Score: 383.133374
- Max Citation Score: 506.5773
- Similarity Product: 337.05088451403384

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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