PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873572
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "072000"]

Abstract:
A device for imaging the surfaces of a sample having topography with the aid of confocal microscopy, in particular confocal Raman and/or fluorescence microscopy, comprising a first light source, in particular a laser light source for generating excitation radiation, in particular Raman radiation and/or fluorescence radiation and a second light source, wherein the first laser light source emits radiation in a first wavelength range and the second light source emits radiation in a second wavelength range, wherein the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range do not overlap.

Claim (Index 20):
A device for imaging a surface of a sample having a surface topography, comprising:\n an optical axis; an objective lens; a light source operably arranged relative to the objective lens to form a substantially punctiform image at a focal plane and to excite a light emission from the sample; a detector operably arranged relative to the objective lens to receive and detect the excited light emission from the sample; a sample table disposed adjacent the objective lens and generally at the focal plane and that movably supports the sample in three orthogonal directions; an analysis unit operably connected to the sample table to control a movement of the sample table; a mechanism configured to periodically move the focal plane along the optical axis; a detector, which detects reflected and/or scattered and/or emitted light from the surface as the focal plane is moving; and generates a reflected light signal; a controller configured to determine a topography of the surface from the reflected light signal and maintain the surface of the sample substantially in the focal plane based on the determined surface topography by adjusting at least one of the sample table, the light source and the objective lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13580324', '15121632', '10579975', '12591584', '15503608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6816968325124789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5875730662996338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6722844558911945
- Mean Citation Score: 316.69004399999994
- Max Citation Score: 490.43192
- Similarity Product: 441.9711643132257

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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