PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255055
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["604", "028000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a cannula assembly, a housing, a fluid reservoir, a flow control mechanism, and an actuator. The housing includes an inlet port removably coupled to the cannula assembly and defines an inner volume. The fluid reservoir is fluidically coupled to the housing and configured to receive and isolate a volume of bodily fluid from a patient. The flow control mechanism is at least partially disposed in the inner volume. The actuator is operably coupled to the flow control mechanism and is configured to move the flow control mechanism between a first configuration, in which bodily fluid can flow, via a fluid flow path defined by the flow control mechanism, from the cannula assembly, through the inlet port and into the fluid reservoir, to a second configuration, in which the fluid reservoir is fluidically isolated from the cannula assembly.

Claim (Index 41):
A method, comprising:\n establishing fluid communication between a patient and a first channel of a fluid transfer device; receiving a first volume of fluid from the patient into the fluid transfer device via the first channel and into a second channel that extends from the first channel, the second channel including a valve seat and a valve, the valve in contact with the valve seat such that the valve forms a substantially fluid tight seal with the walls defining the second channel; sequestering the first volume of fluid; after the first volume of fluid is sequestered, receiving a second volume of fluid into the fluid transfer device; and providing, via the first channel, the second volume of fluid with reduced contamination due to the sequestration of the first volume of fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14049326', '15899856', '14838794', '15705695', '14490099']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8520681918802852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5586107108875208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8227224437810087
- Mean Citation Score: 410.910694
- Max Citation Score: 454.02243
- Similarity Product: 390.2488092592977

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

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