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Class Number: 436 Class Title: CHEMISTRY: ANALYTICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL TESTING Subclass Subclass Number Title 500 THYROID HORMONE TESTS (E.G., T3, T4, TBG, TBH, ETC.) 501 BIOSPECIFIC LIGAND BINDING ASSAY 503 .Utilizing isolate of tissue or organ as binding agent 504 ..Radioactive label 505 ...B12 or folate 506 FOR PREEXISTING IMMUNE COMPLEX OR AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE 507 .Immune complex 508 .Antinuclear (e.g., DNA, etc.) 509 .Rheumatoid factors 510 IMMUNOCHEMICAL PREGNANCY DETERMINATION 512 INVOLVING ANTIBODY FRAGMENTS 513 INVOLVING IgA, IgD, IgE, or IgM 514 INVOLVING DIFFUSION OR MIGRATION OF ANTIGEN OR ANTIBODY 515 .Through a gel (e.g., Ouchterlony technique, etc.) 516 ..Immunoelectrophoresis 517 INVOLVING KINETIC MEASUREMENT OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTION 518 INVOLVING AN INSOLUBLE CARRIER FOR IMMOBILIZING IMMUNOCHEMICALS 519 .Carrier is a biological cell or cell fragment 520 ..Red blood cell 521 ...Fixation or stabilization of red blood cells 522 ...Lysis of red blood cell membrane 523 .Carrier is particulate and the particles are of intentionally different sizes or impregnated differently with the immunochemicals 524 .Carrier is inorganic 525 ..Metal or metal coated 526 ...Magnetic 527 ..Glass or silica 528 .Carrier is organic 529 ..Polysaccharide, carrier (e.g., dextran, etc.) 530 ...Cellulose or derivative 531 ..Carrier is synthetic resin 532 ...Antigen or antibody attached to a carrier via bridging agent 533 ....Carrier is water suspendible particles (e.g., latex, etc.) 534 ...Carrier is water suspendible particles 535 ..Antigen or antibody entrapped within the carrier (e.g., gel, hollow fibre, etc.) 536 INVOLVING IMMUNE COMPLEX FORMED IN LIQUID PHASE 537 .Signal modification or steric inhibition 538 .Separation of immune complex from unbound antigen or antibody 539 ..Involving precipitating reagent 540 ...Double or second antibody 541 ..Absorbent column, particles or resin strip 542 ..Involving radioactive labeling 543 INVOLVING PRODUCING OR TREATING ANTIGEN OR HAPTEN 544 .Producing labeled antigens 545 ..Radioactive label 546 ..Fluorescent label 547 INVOLVING PRODUCTION OR TREATMENT OF ANTIBODY 548 .Monoclonal antibody 1 PROCESS OR COMPOSITION FOR STERILITY OR PACKAGE INTEGRITY TEST 2 PROCESS OR COMPOSITION FOR DETERMINATION OF PHYSICAL STATE ORR PROPERTY BY MEANS INCLUDING A CHEMICAL REACTION 3 .Leak detection 4 .Of crystal or crystalline material 5 .Surface area, porosity, imperfection, or alteration 6 .Corrosion resistance or power 7 .By thermoparticulating composition 8 COMPOSITION FOR STANDARDIZATION, CALIBRATION, SIMULATION, STABILIZATION, PREPARATION OR PRESERVATION; PROCESSES OF USE IN PREPARATION FOR CHEMICAL TESTING 9 .Simulative of a gaseous composition 10 .Particle count or volume standard or control (e.g., platelet count standards, etc.) 11 .Blood gas standard or control 12 .Bilirubin or uric acid standard or control 13 .Lipid, cholesterol, or triglyceride standard or control 14 .Glucose, ketone, nitrate standard or control 15 .Protein or peptide standard or control (e.g., hemoglobin, etc.) 16 .Blood serum or blood plasma standard or control 17 .Preparation composition (e.g., lysing or precipitation, etc.) 18 .Preservative, buffer, anticoagulant or diluent 19 .Inorganic standards or controls 20 FOOD OR DAIRY PRODUCTS 21 .Meat or eggs 22 .Dairy product 23 ..Milk or butter fat 24 .Wine or alcoholic beverages 25 GEOCHEMICAL, GEOLOGICAL, OR GEOTHERMAL EXPLORATION 26 .For metallic ores 27 .Using chemical tracers 28 .In situ testing 29 .For petroleum oils or carbonaceous minerals 30 ..Removing and testing drilling mud or fluid 31 ..Removing and testing solid samples 32 ...Analyzing evolved gas 33 ....Evolving gas by acidification 34 RATE OF REACTION DETERMINATION 35 USING ACTIVATED SPECIE 36 WITH USE OF CONDENSATION NUCLEI 37 TESTING OF CATALYST 38 PURITY OF STEAM OR CHEMICALLY INERT GAS 39 DETERMINATION OF WATER 40 .In petroleum oil, hydrocarbon oil or organic fluid 41 .By use of a cobalt, copper or nickel containing reagent 42 .By use of Karl Fischer Reagent 43 AUTOMATED CHEMICAL ANALYSIS 44 .Utilizing a moving indicator strip or tape 45 .Utilizing a centrifuge or compartmented rotor 46 .With sample on test slide 47 .With conveyance of sample along a test line in a container or rack 48 ..With step of insertion or removal from test line 49 ..With treatment or replacement of aspirator element (e.g., cleaning, etc.) 50 .Condition or time responsive 51 ..With automated titrator 52 .With a continuously flowing sample or carrier stream 53 ..With formation of a segmented streamm 54 .With aspirator of claimed structure 55 CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL 56 TRACERS OR TAGS 57 INCLUDING USE OF RADIOACTIVE PROPERTIES 58 .Dosage determination of high energy radition, (e.g., use of an X-ray dosimeter, etc.) 59 .Including pyrolysis of radioactive material 60 LUBRICANT, GREASE, MINERAL OIL, HYDROCARBON OIL PRODUCT, OR FATS OR LIPIDS FOR OXIDATION (E.G., BREAKDOWN PRODUCTS OR CONTAMINATION, ETC.) 61 .Acidity, basicity or neutralization number 62 OXYGEN DEMAND (E.G., BOD, TOD, COD, ETC.) 63 BIOLOGICAL CELLULAR MATERIAL TESTED 64 CANCER 65 PREGNANCY OR OVULATION 66 HEMOGLOBIN, MYOGLOBIN, OR OCCULT BLOOD 67 .Glycosylated hemoglobin 68 BLOOD GAS (E.G., OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE, BLOOD, pH, ETC.) 69 CLOTTING OR CLOTTING FACTOR LEVEL TESTS 70 SEDIMENTATION RATE OR HEMATOCRIT 71 LIPIDS, TRIGLYCERIDES, CHOLESTEROL, OR LIPOPROTEINS 72 SILICON CONTAINING 73 METAL OR METAL CONTAINING 74 .Present in biological fluids (e.g., blood, urine, etc.) 75 .Oxide or gas content of metal (e.g., determination of dissolved gases, etc.) 76 .Organometallic compound determined 77 ..Group IVA (e.g., Ge, Sn, Pb, etc.) 78 .Presence of a component of steel 79 .Group IA or IIA (e.g., Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra, etc.) 80 .Group IB (e.g., Cu, Ag, Au, etc.) 81 .Group IIB, IIIB, or Actinides, or Lanthanides (e.g., Zn, Cd, Hg, Sc, Y, etc.) 82 ..Lanthanide or Actinide 83 .Group IVB, VB, VIB (e.g., Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, etc.) 84 .Group VIIB, VIII (e.g., Mn, Tc, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt) 85 SYNTHETIC OR NATURAL RESIN 86 PEPTIDE, PROTEIN OR AMINO ACID 87 .Glycoproteins (e.g., hormone, etc.) 88 ..Albumin 89 .Amino acid or sequencing procedure 90 ..Alpha or beta amino acid 91 HETEROCYCLIC CARBON COMPOUND (I.E., O, S, N, Se, Te, AS ONLY RING HETERO ATOM, ETC.) 92 .Diverse hetero atoms in same or different rings (e.g., alkaloids, opiates, etc.) 93 .Hetero-O (e.g., ascorbic acid, etc.) 94 ..Saccharide (e.g., DNA, etc.) 95 ...Glucose 96 .Hetero-N 97 ..Bile pigment 98 ..Plural nitrogen in the same ring (e.g., barbituates, creatinine, etc.) 99 ...Uric acid 100 INORGANIC ACID OR BASE (E.G., HCL, SULFURIC ACID, ETC.)) 101 .Halogen containing 102 .Sulfur containing 103 PHOSPHORUS CONTAINING 104 .Organic (e.g., chemical warfare agents, insecticides, etc.) 105 .Of inorganic phosphorus compound in body fluid 106 NITROGEN CONTAINING 107 .N-Nitroso containing (e.g., nitrosamine, etc.) 108 .Urea or blood urea nitrogen 109 .Cyanide or isocyanide 110 .Nitrite or nitrate 111 .Amine and quartenary ammonium 112 ..Tertiary amine 113 ..Ammonia 114 .Total nitrogen determined 115 ..As part of an elemental analysis 116 .Oxides of nitrogen 117 ..Only nitrogen dioxide 118 ..Both nitrogen oxide and dioxide 119 SULFUR CONTAINING 120 .Organic or sulfhydryl containing (e.g., mercaptan, hydrogen, sulfide, etc.) 121 ..Only hydrogen sulfide 122 .Sulfur dioxide 123 .Total or elemental sulfur 124 HALOGEN CONTAINING 125 .In aqueous solution 126 .Carbon containing compound (e.g., vinylchloride, etc.) 127 OXYGEN CONTAINING 128 .Carbonyl, ether, aldehyde or ketone containing 129 ..Carboxylic acid 130 ..Formaldehyde or acetone 131 .Hydroxyl containing 132 ..Ethanol 133 .Inorganic carbon compounds 134 ..Carbon monoxide only 135 .Ozone or peroxide 136 .Molecular oxygen 137 ..Fuel/air mixture or exhaust gas analysis 138 ..Dissolved or trace oxygen or oxygen content of a sealed environment 139 HYDROCARBON 140 .Aromatic 141 .Acyclic (e.g., methane, octane, isoparaffin, etc.) 142 ..Unsaturated (e.g., ethylene, diene, etc.) 143 .Total hydrocarbon, flammability, combustibility (e.g., air-fuel mixture, etc.) 144 HYDROGEN, PER SE 145 CARBON CONTAINING 146 .In an aqueous solution (e.g., TOC, etc.) 147 MEASUREMENT INCLUDES TEMPERATURE CHANGE OF THE MATERIAL BEING ANALYZED (E.G., CALORIMETRY, ETC.) 148 MEASUREMENT INCLUDES CHANGE IN VOLUME OR PRESSURE 149 MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRICAL OR MAGNETIC PROPERTY OR THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY 150 .Of a liquid 151 .By means of a solid body in contact with a fluid 152 ..Solid body contains a combustion catalyst 153 .Of an ionized gass 154 ..Flame ionization 155 PYROLYSIS, COMBUSTION, OR ELEVATED TEMPERATURE CONVERSION 156 .Explosibility 157 .Multiple stages of heating or heating at multiple temperatures or application of temperature gradient 158 .Dividing or separating a sample stream 159 .With catalyst or accelerator 160 .Combustion with oxygen containing gas 161 INCLUDING CHROMATOGRAPHY 162 .Utilizing paper or thin layer plate 163 INCLUDING TITRATION OR pH DETERMINATION 164 OPTICAL RESULT 165 .With claimed manipulation of container to effect reaction or use of container of claimed optical structure 166 .Including reagent preparation 167 .Including gas absorption in liquid or solid 168 ..Liquid sorbent 169 .With reagent in absorbent or bibulous substrate 170 ..Plural superposed layers 171 .Spectrum analysis (e.g., flame photometry, etc.) 172 .With fluorescence or luminescence 173 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE OR OTHER SPIN EFFECTS OR MASS SPECTROMETRY 174 INCLUDING SAMPLE PREPARATION 175 .Digestion or removing interfering materials 176 .Stabilizing or preserving 177 .Liberation or purification of sample or separation of material from a sample (e.g., filtering, centrifuging, etc.) 178 ..Including use of a solid sorbent, semipermeable membrane, or liquid extraction 179 .Dilution 180 .Volumetric liquid transfer 181 .Gaseous sample or with change of physical state 182 ELEMENT OR INORGANIC COMPOUND 183 MISCELLANEOUS * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS RELATED TO ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY * ****************************** 800 FLUORESCENT DYES (E.G., RHODAMINE, ETC.) 801 ELECTRON DENSE COMPOUNDS (E.G., FERRITIN, ETC.) 802 PROTEIN-BACTERIOPHAGE CONGUGATES 803 STABLE FREE RADICALS (E.G., SPIN LABELED IMMUNOASSAY, ETC.) 804 RADIOISOTOPE (E.G., RADIOIMMUNOASSAY, ETC.) 805 OPTICAL PROPERTY 806 ELECTRICAL PROPERTY OR MAGNETIC PROPERTY 807 APPARATUS INCLUDED IN PROCESS CLAIM (E.G., PHYSICAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES, ETC.) 808 .Automated or kit 809 .Multifield plates or multicontainer arrays 810 .Tube, bottle, or dipstick 811 TEST FOR NAMED DISEASE, BODY CONDITION OR ORGAN FUNCTION 812 .Infectious mononucleosis 813 .Cancer 814 .Pregnancy 815 TEST FOR NAMED COMPOUND OR CLASS OF COMPOUNDS 816 .Alkaloids, amphetamines, and barbiturates 817 .Steroids or hormones 818 ..Human chorionic gonadotropinn 819 MULTIFUNCTIONAL ANTIGEN OR ANTIBODY 820 HEPATITIS ASSOCIATED ANTIGENS AND ANTIBODIES 821 INVOLVING COMPLEMENT FACTORS OR COMPLEMENT SYSTEMS 822 IDENTIFIED HAPTEN 823 IMMUNOGENIC CARRIER OR CARRIER PER SE 824 IMMUNOLOGICAL SEPARATION TECHNIQUES 825 PRETREATMENT FOR REMOVAL OF INTERFERING FACTORS FROM SAMPLE 826 ADDITIVES (E.G., BUFFERS, DILVENTS, PRESERVATIVES) 827 LECTINS 828 PROTEIN A 829 LIPOSOMES (E.G., ENCAPSULATION, ETC.) * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 900 BREATH TESTING 901 DRUGS OF ABUSE (E.G., NARCOTICS, AMPHETAMINE, ETC.) 902 DOSIMETER 903 DIAZO REACTIONS 904 OXIDATION - REDUCTION INDICATORS 905 PHOTOCHEMICAL ACTIVATION OF REACTIONS 906 FERTILITY TESTS 907 FETAL LUNG MATURITY 908 GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS 909 NEPHELOMETRY 910 IRON-BINDING CAPACITY OF BLOOD