PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763742
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "440000"]

Abstract:
An integrated optofluidic device to illuminate, along an irradiation direction, a fluidic sample containing an object to be analysed, the device comprising: a substrate comprising an entry surface and being made of a material transparent to a light beam incident through the entry surface along the irradiation direction; a microfluidic channel formed in the substrate and having a channel portion intercepting the irradiation direction and extending along a longitudinal axis transverse to the irradiation direction, the microfluidic channel comprising a first flow inlet port for loading a fluidic sample therein, and an elongated lens cavity for an optofluidic cylindrical lens, the cavity being formed in the substrate and being arranged along the beam irradiation direction between the entry surface and the microfluidic channel, wherein the lens cavity is in fluid communication with a lens inlet port for loading a lens fluid.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of imaging an object in a fluidic sample, comprising:\n providing an integrated optofluidic device according to  claim 1 , wherein the substrate is made of a material of a first refractive index and an elongated lens cavity is configured so as to form a cylindrical lens when filled by a lens fluid; loading a lens fluid into the lens cavity so as to form an optofluidic cylindrical lens, the lens fluid having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index; loading a fluidic sample containing an object to be analyzed into the microfluidic channel by positioning the object in the channel portion; entering a light beam from an entry surface of the substrate of the optofluidic device along an irradiation direction; passing the light beam through the optofluidic lens thereby generating a light-sheet beam in a plane comprising the irradiation direction and then through the channel portion, and receiving fluorescence light emitted from the object by means of a microscope objective lens arranged along a detection direction perpendicular to the irradiation direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32308
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13375433', '11836578', '11686095', '11125718', '14023455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7008379734534146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4951423085798159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6802684069660547
- Mean Citation Score: 216.394248
- Max Citation Score: 251.06648
- Similarity Product: 186.0326587599707

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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