PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764830
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "080000"]

Abstract:
This application discloses a tools and techniques for using a remote-focusing element (such as an electro-tunable lens) to provide enhanced focusing in an all-optical digital scanning microscopy system. The remote-focusing element can imaging of different sections of the specimen without moving the specimen itself, while at the same time providing the ability to correct for non-uniform indices of refraction in the imaged specimen and/or the surrounding medium which can cause misalignment between the imaged plane and the illuminated plane, which can result in loss focus in the imaged section of the specimen. The remote-focusing element can also obviate the need to move the detection stage and/or the illumination stage of the system to image different sections, eliminating vibration during the imaging process.

Claim (Index 7):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the illumination side optics include a scanning mirror, and wherein the set of instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to:\n scan, via the scanning mirror, the light sheet to a position wherein the illumination plane of the light sheet illuminates a second section of the specimen; capture, via the image detector, a first image of the second section detected by the detection objective; determine whether the first image of the second section is within the focus tolerance range; identify at least one out-of-focus feature in the first image of the second section; adjust, via the driver of the electro-tunable lens, the focal length of the electro-tunable lens, wherein the focal plane of the detection objective is shifted to coincide with the position of the illumination plane of the light sheet at the at least one out-of-focus feature of the second section; and capture a second image of the second section having the at least one out-of-focus feature of the second section in focus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68831
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13968220', '15266310', '15719299', '15695484', '15680075']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6203664008580841
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821513576088224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6065448965331579
- Mean Citation Score: 189.394448
- Max Citation Score: 194.38135
- Similarity Product: 143.73155425468087

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

Dataset: test