DETAILED ACTION
Status of the Claims
1. Claims 1-20 are pending.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
2. Claims 1-7 and 13-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to abstract idea without significantly more. The claim(s) recite(s) determining target concentration of electrolyte in a sensor, determining residual concentration based on initial concentration and target concentration, determining concentration measurement value based on correlation and determining fault information of sensor based on residual concentration and concentration measurement value. All these steps seem to be things that could be done mentally or with pencil and paper. This judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application because fault information could be a number on a piece of paper but nothing is being done with the fault information i.e. fault information is simply calculated.
The claim(s) does/do not include additional elements that are sufficient to amount to significantly more than the judicial exception. As discussed above with respect to integration of the abstract idea into a practical application, there are no elements in addition to the abstract ideas which are not routine and conventional. The claims are not patent eligible.
Claims 2-7 and 13-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because they depend on claim 1.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
3. Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claims 1, 13 and 17 recites “determining target concentration of electrolyte in a sensor at time t”. The limitation as written is unclear and vague because it is not clear how target concentration of electrolyte is calculated/determined. It is not clear if the target concentration is based on applied current, based on impedance value or another means.
Limitation reciting “determining concentration measurement value of the electrolyte based on the impedance value and correlation information between concentration and an impedance of the electrolyte”. The limitation as written is unclear and vague because it is not clear which impedance value is being used to correlate with concentration to obtain correlation information.
Claim 7 recites “determining sum value between the difference and a measurement error”. The limitation as written is unclear and vague because it is not clear what is measurement error or how is measurement error is obtained and to be used in obtaining sum value.
Claim 8 recites the limitation "the current to voltage acquisition module" in line 5. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 2-7,9-12,14-16 and 18-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph for being dependent on claims 1, 8, 13 and 17 respectively.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Leach et al. (US 2019/0265190) teach system/method for identifying concentration of an electrolyte using cyclic voltammetry at plurality of electrolyte concentrations, generating a variable set of readings and correlating by plotting variable set of readings and plurality of electrolyte concentrations (see abstract and [0052]).
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/GURPREET KAUR/
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