PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["435", "405000"]

Abstract:
A slide processing apparatus controls the temperature and orientation of a microscope slide carrying one or more specimens. The apparatus heats the specimen-bearing microscope slide while the slide is oriented to both facilitate adhesion between the specimens and the slide and control movement of the specimens relative to the microscope slide. A slide dryer of the apparatus conductively heats the specimens using a conductive slide heater that physically engages the microscope slide.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for automatically processing microscope slides carrying specimens, the apparatus comprising:\n a drying station including a slide dryer, wherein the drying station is configured to automatically hold the microscope slides at an angle of inclination to promote draining of liquid from the microscope slides, and wherein the slide dryer heats the microscope slides held at the angle of inclination such that a temperature along each of the microscope slides is higher than about 50 degrees Celsius to at least partially dry the specimens carried by the microscope slides; a staining station that automatically delivers stains onto the microscope slides to stain the at least partially dried specimens; a cover-slipping station that automatically places coverslips on the microscope slides; and a transport device that automatically transports the microscope slides between the drying station, the staining station, and the cover-slipping station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16010357', '13128856', '15179853', '15179834', '14923024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6432245196384665
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5684490141803427
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.635746969092654
- Mean Citation Score: 339.58813
- Max Citation Score: 474.9389
- Similarity Product: 401.3561087885857

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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