PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["250", "287000"]

Abstract:
A mass analyzing apparatus and system are disclosed for time-of-flight (“TOF”) mass spectrometry analysis. A representative system includes a first electrostatic mirror prism to reflect a first ion beam and provide an intermediate ion beam having an intermediate TOF focus and having a spatial dispersion of ions proportional to ion kinetic energies; and a second electrostatic mirror prism to reflect the second ion beam and converge the spatial dispersion of ions to provide a third, recombined ion beam having an output TOF focus; and an ion detector arranged at the output TOF focus to receive and detect the ions of the third ion beam. A bandpass filter may be arranged at the intermediate TOF focus to selectively allow propagation of ions of the second ion beam having a selected range of ion kinetic energies. Configurations having additional electrostatic mirror prisms are disclosed, including for tandem MS-MS and selectable time-of-flight.

Claim (Index 12):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the electrostatic mirror prism arrangement further comprises:\n a third electrostatic mirror prism having a third plurality of ion-transparent electrodes to generate a third retarding electric field to reflect the first ion beam or a seventh ion beam and provide a fourth ion beam having a spatial dispersion of ions proportional to ion kinetic energies, the fourth ion beam having a fourth TOF focus; a fourth electrostatic mirror prism spaced apart from the third electrostatic mirror prism by a second predetermined distance and further arranged to have a predetermined second angular offset from the third electrostatic mirror prism, the fourth electrostatic mirror prism having a fourth plurality of electrodes to generate a fourth retarding electric field to reflect the fourth ion beam and converge the spatial dispersion of ions to provide a fifth, recombined ion beam, the fifth ion beam having a fifth TOF focus; a fifth electrostatic mirror prism having a fifth plurality of electrodes to generate a fifth retarding electric field to reflect the fifth ion beam and provide a sixth ion beam having a spatial dispersion of ions proportional to ion kinetic energies, the sixth ion beam having a sixth TOF focus; and a sixth electrostatic mirror prism spaced apart from the fifth electrostatic mirror prism by a third predetermined distance and further arranged to have a predetermined third angular offset from the fifth electrostatic mirror prism, the sixth electrostatic mirror prism having a sixth plurality of ion-transparent electrodes to generate a sixth retarding electric field to reflect the sixth ion beam and converge the spatial dispersion of ions to provide the seventh, recombined beam, the seventh ion beam having a seventh TOF focus collocated with the first TOF focus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14671521', '12445231', '14354859', '15300998', '14959795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7601677734882241
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5129880945026424
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7354498055896659
- Mean Citation Score: 285.171726
- Max Citation Score: 315.60922
- Similarity Product: 248.93840664205075

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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