PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "287000"]

Abstract:
A system for expressing an ion path in a time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer. The present invention uses two successive curved sectors, with the second one reversed, to form S-shaped configuration such that an output ion beam is parallel to an input ion beam, such that the ions makes two identical but opposed turns, and such that the geometry of the entire system folds into a very compact volume. Geometry of a TOF mass spectrometer system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention further includes straight drift regions positioned before and after the S-shaped configuration and, optionally, a short straight region positioned between the two curved sectors with total length equal to about the length of the central arc of both curved sectors.

Claim (Index 8):
The system according to  claim 7 , wherein the first and the second curved ion flight paths define an S-shaped ion flight path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71795
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15249370', '15701430', '10758326', '10424351', '11148865']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7467809133034949
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5741692715391704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7295197491270624
- Mean Citation Score: 371.01247
- Max Citation Score: 450.4385
- Similarity Product: 429.1128997676968

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

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