PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868772
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["359", "398000"]

Abstract:
A specimen retaining method and slide apparatus for use with microscopes to view protozoans and similar organisms in liquid cultures. The slide assembly has a rigid rectangular base made of optically clear plastic, having a shallow well for holding the liquid culture, and a thin flexible coverslip of similar shape made of optically clear plastic placeable in the slide base to cover and retain the liquid. The base has a perimeter railing that holds the coverslip in place over the well and to prevent its disturbance when handled. The well is rectangular, oriented along the length of the base. Flat ledges extend inward from these railings to support the coverslip and to define the depth of the well. The well contains narrow ridges of height corresponding to the well depth with small liquid-distribution gaps along them to support the coverslip. These ridges constrain the specimen(s) in the liquid compartments.

Claim (Index 3):
The microscope slide assembly of  claim 1 , wherein said well in said slide base has an array of narrow ridges oriented in rectilinear layout and rising from the bottom surface of said well to a height equal to that of said ledges surrounding said well said ridges providing a means of support of said coverslip over the span area of said well and said ridges having narrow gaps through which said liquid culture medium resides and communicates freely between the rectangular compartments formed by said ridges said ridges nevertheless providing a partially restraining barrier to keep said live protozoans within said liquid culture medium in said rectangular compartments within said well.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88372
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399948', '15179853', '13786356', '15179784', '11157922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8114168973963946
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4791367022086277
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7781888778776179
- Mean Citation Score: 169.371376
- Max Citation Score: 176.06856000000005
- Similarity Product: 114.09628919328692

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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