PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16171980
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["422", "536000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein relate to an apparatus for positioning and securing an excised biological tissue specimen for imaging and analysis. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a sample bag defining an inner volume configured to receive a biological tissue sample, and a sealing member coupled to the sample bag. An imaging window is disposed and configured to be placed in contact with at least a portion of the biological tissue sample, and a positioning member is coupled to the imaging window and is configured to be disposed against the sealing member to substantially seal the inner volume. The positioning member includes a vacuum port disposed and configured to be aligned with a vacuum source to withdraw air from the inner volume of the sample bag.

Claim (Index 18):
The apparatus of  claim 17 , wherein at least one of the sample bag, the sealing member, the imaging window, and the positioning member is configured to be sterilized in an autoclave before reuse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23729
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15410669', '13383318', '12830078', '15765145', '13522353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7760563505932813
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4951488309474671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7479655986286998
- Mean Citation Score: 124.06318
- Max Citation Score: 132.16464
- Similarity Product: 73.82334837696075

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test