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 1):
An automated method for processing microscope slides carrying specimens, the method comprising:\n heating a plurality of specimen slides held by a slide tray positioned within an automated stainer apparatus, wherein the slide tray holds the plurality of specimen slides in a substantially coplanar and spaced-apart arrangement; robotically de-paraffinizing the heated specimen slides held by the slide tray; delivering liquids, via a staining device of the automated stainer apparatus, onto each of the specimen slides without having a substantial amount of liquid delivered onto one of the specimen slides contacting any of the other specimen slides held by the slide tray, after staining the specimen slides using the staining device,\n robotically coverslipping each of the stained specimen slides being held by the slide tray within the automated stainer apparatus; and \n robotically transporting the slide tray, carrying the coverslipped and stained specimen slides, to a retrieval position for manually transporting the slide tray away 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): 0.7494807150418932
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6075941357010186
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7352920571078058
- Mean Citation Score: 533.641212
- Max Citation Score: 593.7643
- Similarity Product: 499.0548224735558

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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