PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "479000"]

Abstract:
Various systems and methods for sequential angle illumination to achieve ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. One example OCT system includes a light source, a beam divider, sample arm optics, a detector, and a processor. The light source generates a light beam to illuminate the sample. The beam divider separates the light beam into reference and sample arms. The sample arm optics sequentially illuminates a location in the sample with the light beam from different angles. The detector receives light returned from the reference arm and the sample illuminated at each angle and generates signals. The processor combines the signals to generate an image, which has a transverse resolution that is higher than the transverse resolution achieved from the signal generated from a single angle.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for high resolution imaging of a sample with a multi-beam optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, said method comprising:\n illuminating different locations in the sample through multiple sample arm beam paths using a light source; adjusting the multiple sample arm beam paths such that at least one of the previously illuminated sample locations is illuminated again by a different sample arm beam path incident on the sample location at a different angle; combining light returning from the sample and light from one or more reference beam paths at a plurality of beam combiners; collecting light from each combiner and generating signals in response thereto; coherently combining the signals from the different angles at each location to generate an image of the sample, said image having a transverse resolution that is higher than the transverse resolution achieved from the signal generated from a single angle; storing or displaying the image or a further analysis thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15782018', '15951198', '15546365', '14683066', '15025410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7372983868882478
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007312265595186
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7136416708553749
- Mean Citation Score: 272.078876
- Max Citation Score: 277.08282
- Similarity Product: 219.4149759241569

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