PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056860
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A three-dimensional (3D) microscope includes various insertable components that facilitate multiple imaging and measurement capabilities. These capabilities include Nomarski imaging, polarized light imaging, quantitative differential interference contrast (q-DIC) imaging, motorized polarized light imaging, phase-shifting interferometry (PSI), and vertical-scanning interferometry (VSI).

Claim (Index 1):
A microscope illuminator capable of generating 3-D images, the microscope illuminator comprising:\n a first light source forming part of a first light path; a second light source and a set of articles forming part of a second light path, the set of articles including at least a plurality of patterned articles; a shared set of components for said first and second light paths, the shared set of components including a first beam-splitter, a lens group, and a beam-splitter set including a second beam-splitter and a pair of beam-splitters mounted on a multi-position fixture, said first light source directing light onto said first beam-splitter and said second light source directing light via one of the set of articles onto said first beam-splitter, a surface of the one article being located at an effective focal plane of said lens group, and said lens group imaging the first light source and the second light source at an entrance pupil of a microscope objective lens via the second beam-splitter of the beam-splitter set, wherein the second beam-splitter forms part of an imaging path; a housing, which includes a slot for inserting one of a plurality of components, wherein when inserted, each component is positioned to form part of the first and the second light paths, wherein one of the plurality of components is a polarizer assembly; a focusing lens, wherein the pair of beam splitters and the focusing lens form part of a third light path for directing light to an external connector, wherein the third light path is independent of the imaging path; and a multi-pin connector linking electronically to the first light source and the second light source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13333938', '13494949', '13172686', '15150406', '15118877']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6291564094153517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.557338730368021
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6219746415106187
- Mean Citation Score: 293.760608
- Max Citation Score: 423.09543
- Similarity Product: 419.02549955615217

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