PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880014
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "365000"]

Abstract:
A polarized light imaging apparatus for separating light from a superficial single-scattering layer of a sample and its deeper diffuse layer as a function of space is disclosed. The apparatus has a light source for producing light beams; an illumination optic coupled to the light source for guiding the light beams towards the sample; a linear polarizer coupled to the illumination optic; a non-total internal reflection (TIR) birefringent polarizing prism (BPP) communicatively coupled to the sample to maximize a refraction difference between ordinary waves and extraordinary waves of light returning from the sample; and a detection optic unit coupled to the non-TIR BPP for guiding the light waves returning from the sample towards a single polarization sensitive sensor element.

Claim (Index 21):
The PDI apparatus according to  claim 18 , further comprising two or more aperture stops configured to regulate an amount of light returning from the sample towards said non-TIR BPP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92537
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14250125', '12763173', '14116945', '10968834', '11103726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6871828992748681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4788202613105239
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6663466354784338
- Mean Citation Score: 171.62860600000005
- Max Citation Score: 191.44261
- Similarity Product: 140.30529230183305

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

Dataset: test