PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "459100"]

Abstract:
Provided is a microscope including: a scanner for scanning excitation light; an objective optical system that focuses the excitation light onto a sample and that collects fluorescence generated by the sample; a light-blocking member for transmitting a portion of the collected fluorescence; a detector for detecting the fluorescence; a setting unit that allows types of fluorescence having passed through the light-blocking member to be detected by the detector at different times in two types of positional relationships in which the positional relationship between the position of an opening in the light-blocking member and a focal point of the objective optical system in the sample is set to an optically conjugate positional relationship, in which in-focus fluorescence passes through the light-blocking member, and to an optically nonconjugate positional relationship; and an arithmetic operation unit for calculating the difference between fluorescence signals acquired at different times by the detector.

Claim (Index 10):
The microscope according to  claim 9 ,\n wherein the light source modulates the excitation light in an arbitrary repeated waveform, and the setting unit includes a free-space optical system that splits the fluorescence collected by the objective optical system into a plurality of optical paths having different optical-path lengths and that causes the image-forming positions of the fluorescence light beam to differ.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15275359', '11805378', '15436738', '10579975', '12148671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7412349649154901
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5253698768391782
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7196484561078589
- Mean Citation Score: 262.017596
- Max Citation Score: 339.9049
- Similarity Product: 281.1398738461197

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

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