PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16399592
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["435", "006110"]

Abstract:
An automated system is provided for performing slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. In one embodiment, the disclosed system includes a slide tray holding a plurality of slides in a substantially horizontal position and a workstation that receives the slide tray. In a particular embodiment, a workstation delivers a reagent to slide surfaces without substantial transfer of reagent (and reagent borne contaminants such as dislodged cells) from one slide to another. A method for automated processing of slides also is provided.

Claim (Index 11):
An automated method for processing microscope slides carrying specimens, the method comprising:\n robotically transporting a slide tray, which holds specimen slides at a substantially coplanar and spaced-apart arrangement, through the automated stainer apparatus to a stainer workstation; delivering liquid onto each of the specimen slides without having an appreciable amount of liquid delivered onto one of the specimen slides contacting any of the other specimen slides held by the slide tray; robotically transporting the slide tray from the stainer workstation to a coverslipper apparatus within the automated stainer apparatus; automatically coverslipping each of the specimen slides using the automated coverslipper apparatus; and robotically transporting the slide tray with the coverslipped specimen slides to a parking garage configured to hold processed slide trays for removal from the automated stainer apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59649
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14082092', '15351411', '11181625', '11116676', '15179834']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7510300835176105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6024154334295895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7361686185088084
- Mean Citation Score: 533.641212
- Max Citation Score: 593.7643
- Similarity Product: 480.39114356362825

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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