PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "335000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus to provide multi-beam imaging of particles includes a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) configured to generate a plurality of light beams that converge with each other to form a measurement volume within a particle field. The plurality of the VCSELs are configured to provide uniformity in a background illumination of the measurement volume. An imaging optics is coupled to at least one of the plurality of VCSELs. A digital camera is coupled to the imaging optics to obtain a shadow image of a particle passing through the measurement volume at a focal plane of the digital camera. A processor is coupled to the digital camera.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 14 , further comprising:\n determining the first shadow image from the background illumination; identifying the first particle based on the first shadow image; and determining a size of the identified first particle based on the first shadow image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98305
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15552263', '14304872', '15040975', '13363181', '15518456']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.699747143373211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5157223489091184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6813446639268017
- Mean Citation Score: 221.0188
- Max Citation Score: 325.4178
- Similarity Product: 257.8833326082945

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

Dataset: test