PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["083", "042000"]

Abstract:
A microtome for cutting fresh tissue slices from a specimen directs a reciprocating blade along a slicing path such that a cutting edge of the blade traverses a slicing window at an angle that is preferably perpendicular, or near perpendicular, to the slicing path. A blade drive motor drives the cutting edge of the blade in a reciprocating motion, in a longitudinal direction, via an eccentric coupled to a blade holder by a rigid link. Preferred embodiments include a specimen actuator disposed to urge the specimen into the slicing window, and a slidably-removable buffer tray disposed to receive a tissue slice cut from the specimen.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of operating a microtome, comprising:\n providing a microtome having a base, the base having a cutting arm movably coupled to the base, and a blade holder coupled to the cutting arm, the base further having a micrometer nonmovably coupled to the base, the blade holder configured to hold a cutting blade having a cutting edge; providing a specimen extending through a slicing window; moving the cutting edge in a longitudinal reciprocating motion; and moving the cutting arm along a slicing path such that the blade traverses the slicing window.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82258
- Patent Class: 83.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12310519', '10969350', '13320215', '15152354', '14163858']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.749991116077968
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009929241410861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7250912968842798
- Mean Citation Score: 195.641688
- Max Citation Score: 231.03767
- Similarity Product: 143.7565986248541

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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