PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15755782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "036000"]

Abstract:
A ballast water monitoring device and a method for detecting live phytoplankton are disclosed. The device comprises a chamber for receiving a sample, at least one light source to emit light towards the sample, a light detector to receive light from the sample and generate a light signal, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the at least one light source to emit a single pulse of light, calculate the variable fluorescence [Fv] of the sample in response to the pulse of light, at time intervals less than the duration of the pulse of light, compare the calculated variable fluorescence to a predetermined reference limit, and perform an action if the calculated variable fluorescence is greater than the predetermined reference limit.

Claim (Index 16):
The ballast water monitoring device according to  claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of lenses configured to generate a uniform light field directed into the chamber, optionally wherein at least one of the plurality of lenses is an achromatic doublet lens, optionally wherein the plurality of lenses comprise an array of plano-convex lenses positioned directly in front of the plurality of light sources and optionally wherein when the plurality of lenses comprise an array of plano-convex lenses positioned directly in front of the plurality of light sources, the plurality of lenses comprise a shortpass filter placed in front of the array of plano-convex lenses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12887948', '14442409', '14176474', '13513786', '11926196']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.684568681092336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4613460913515908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6622464221182616
- Mean Citation Score: 150.39562999999995
- Max Citation Score: 159.3048
- Similarity Product: 125.95584198875429

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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