PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005826
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "345000"]

Abstract:
A sensing device, designed to be used in contact with the skin, contains a plurality of individually controllable sites for electrochemically monitoring an analyte, such as glucose, in interstitial fluid of a user. The device includes at least a hydrophobic layer designed to contact the skin; a capillary channel providing an opening adjacent the skin; a metal electrode layer having a sensor layer applied to an edge portion thereof such that it is exposed to the interior of said capillary channel, the sensing layer being effective to measure the analyte.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for electrochemically monitoring an analyte in interstitial fluid of a user, the method comprising:\n contacting the user's skin with a monitoring device, the monitoring device including a plurality of individually controllable detection sites for electrochemically monitoring the analyte in interstitial fluid of a user; controlling at least a first of the individually controlled detection sites to apply a first voltage to a microheater located adjacent to the user's skin at the first of the individually controlled detection sites, wherein the microheater produces heat responsive to the applied first voltage, the heat being sufficient to ablate the stratum corneum of the underlying skin and access the interstitial fluid of the user containing the analyte; receiving the accessed interstitial fluid at a first opening of a dual opening capillary channel of the first of the individually controlled detection sites, wherein the accessed interstitial fluid rises through the capillary channel, traversing multiple material layers including at least a hydrophobic layer contacting the user's skin, first structural layer and a metal electrode layer that is discontinuous at a circumference of the capillary channel, such that two non-contiguous edge portions of the metal electrode layer are present within the circumference of said capillary channel, a first non-contiguous edge portion of the metal electrode layer including a sensing layer applied thereto and being exposed to an interior of the capillary channel; applying a second voltage between the two non-contiguous edge portions of the metal electrode layer when the interstitial fluid passes thereby within the capillary channel; and electronically detecting the analyte in the interstitial fluid using the sensing layer responsive to the application of the second voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62295
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13834199', '11743472', '15844507', '14311036', '09705100']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4194943785738941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5238999370745585
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4299349344239606
- Mean Citation Score: 184.913524
- Max Citation Score: 361.6007
- Similarity Product: 226.5965526218772

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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