PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116038
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["356", "502000"]

Abstract:
A photoacoustic remote sensing system (PARS) for imaging a subsurface structure in a sample has an excitation beam configured to generate ultrasonic signals in the sample at an excitation location; an interrogation beam incident on the sample at the excitation location, a portion of the interrogation beam returning from the sample that is indicative of the generated ultrasonic signals; an optical system that focuses at least one of the excitation beam and the interrogation beam with a focal point that is below the surface of the sample; and a detector that detects the returning portion of the interrogation beam.

Claim (Index 27):
An endoscopic device that uses a photoacoustic remote sensing system (PARS) for imaging a subsurface structure in a sample, the endoscopic device comprises:\n a fiber optic cable having an input end and a detection end; a pulsed or intensity-modulated excitation beam at the input end of the fiber optic cable, wherein, in use, the excitation beam generates ultrasonic signals in the sample at an excitation location that is adjacent to the detection end of the fiber optic cable, the fiber optic cable focusing the excitation beam at a first focal point that is below the surface of and within the sample; a continuous interrogation beam at the input end of the fiber optic cable and incident on the excitation location, the fiber optic cable focusing the interrogation beam at a second focal point that is below the surface of and within the sample, wherein a portion of the interrogation beam that is indicative of the generated ultrasonic signals is received by the detection end of the fiber optic cable and travels to the input end; a detector configured to receive the returning portion of the interrogation beam at the input end of the fiber optic cable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15418447', '15933193', '14919565', '14824535', '14234197']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7349435297890778
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6332452839058372
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7247737052007539
- Mean Citation Score: 417.612918
- Max Citation Score: 578.1948
- Similarity Product: 555.7371994146823

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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