PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893204
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A scanning microscope includes a light source for generating a light beam having a wavelength, λ, and beam-forming optics configured for receiving the light beam and generating a quasi-Bessel excitation beam that is directed into a sample. The quasi-Bessel beam has a lateral FWHM and an axial FWHM that is greater than ten times the lateral FWHM, and the beam-forming optics include an excitation objective having an axis oriented in a first direction. The microscope includes beam scanning optics configured for scanning the quasi-Bessel beam in one or more directions that are substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a detector configured for detecting signal light received from positions within the sample that are illuminated by the quasi-Bessel beam. The signal light is generated in response to an interaction of the excitation beam with the sample, and the signal light is imaged, at least in part, by the excitation objective, onto the detector.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of imaging a sample, the method comprising:\n receiving a light beam having a wavelength, k, and transforming the received light beam into a quasi-Bessel excitation beam propagating in a first direction in the sample, wherein the quasi-Bessel beam has a lateral FWHM and an axial FWHM that is greater than ten times the lateral FWHM; scanning the quasi-Bessel beam in one or more directions that are substantially perpendicular to the first direction; detecting signal light received from positions within the sample that are illuminated by the quasi-Bessel beam, wherein the signal light is generated in response to an interaction of the excitation beam with the sample, and wherein the quasi-Bessel beam is provided through an excitation objective to the sample, and wherein the detected signal light is received though the excitation objective; and generating an image of the sample based on the detected signal light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29167
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14216039', '13160492', '14215912', '13844405', '14216015']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6738874818130246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5064148318114053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6571402168128626
- Mean Citation Score: 295.40113
- Max Citation Score: 299.69965
- Similarity Product: 237.0815575213939

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

Dataset: test