PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15574492
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A method for examining and processing a microscopic sample arranged on a slide includes producing reference markings on the slide by a laser beam of a laser microdissection system. A digital image of the sample and the reference markings on the slide is produced by a digital optical imaging device. An image region is defined and first position information data which indicate a position of the image region is generated. The reference markings are identified in the image and second position information data which indicate a position of the reference markings in the image is generated. The reference markings are identified, and third position information data which indicate the position of the reference markings in the laser microdissection system is generated. The first, second and third position information data are correlated and a sample region which corresponds to the image region is processed.

Claim (Index 13):
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions thereon, which upon execution by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to control, execute and/or operate a method for examining a microscopic sample arranged on a slide using a magnifying digital optical imaging device, by which the sample is optically imaged and a digital image of the sample is produced, and for processing the microscopic sample arranged on the slide by a laser microdissection system which has an optical microscope and a laser and with which a laser beam for processing the sample is produced, the method comprising:\n a) producing at least two reference markings on the slide by the laser beam of the laser microdissection system, the reference markings being identifiable both by the digital optical imaging device and by the laser microdissection system, b) applying the sample to the slide, before or after the reference markings are produced on the slide in accordance with step a), c) producing a digital image of the sample on the slide by the digital optical imaging device, wherein the image also includes the reference markings, d) defining at least one image region of the image and generating first position information data which indicate a position of the at least one image region in the image, e) identifying the reference markings in the image and generating second position information data which indicate a position of the reference markings in the image, before, during or after the at least one image region of the image is defined in accordance with step d), f) providing the first and second position information data to the laser microdissection system, g) imaging the slide having the sample and the reference markings and identifying the reference markings by the laser microdissection system, and generating third position information data which indicate the position of the reference markings in the laser microdissection system, and h) correlating the first position information data, the second position information data and the third position information data, and processing at least one sample region of the sample which corresponds to the at least one image region of the image defined in step d), by the laser microdissection system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90385
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14049241', '14901727', '11331758', '14913385', '15564577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6339121246813059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4802561695881256
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6185465291719878
- Mean Citation Score: 202.497204
- Max Citation Score: 242.5545
- Similarity Product: 210.33861124277115

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

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