PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113489
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A system is described to facilitate the characterization of particles within a fluid contained in a vessel using an illumination system that directs source light through each vessel. One or more optical elements may be implemented to refract the source light and to illuminate the entire volume of the vessel. As the refracted source light passes through the vessel and interacts with particles suspended in the fluid, scattered light is produced and directed to an imager, while the refracted source light is diverted away from the imager to prevent the source light from drowning out the scattered light. The system can therefore advantageously utilize an imager with a large depth of field to accurately image the entire volume of fluid at the same time, facilitating the determination of the number and size of particles suspended in the fluid.

Claim (Index 12):
The system of  claim 9 , further comprising a stage configured to selectively agitate and to receive a plate including the vessel, wherein the imager is configured to acquire the sequential images after the stage is agitated, and\n wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate a minimum intensity projection (MinIP) from the sequential images, to subtract the MinIP from each of the sequential images to generate an image stack, and to determine the size and the number of particles in the fluid from the image stack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95946
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15429458', '15193704', '15256429', '15192920', '14241861']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5316751960349642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5210923224055118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5306169086720189
- Mean Citation Score: 161.712227
- Max Citation Score: 327.8634600000001
- Similarity Product: 306.4558561140061

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

Dataset: test