PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746325
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["359", "385000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to the high-resolution spectrally selective scanning microscopy of a sample. The sample is excited with illumination radiation in order to emit fluorescence radiation such that the illumination radiation is bundled into an illumination spot in or on the sample. The illumination spot is diffraction-limited in at least one spatial direction and has a minimum extension in said spatial direction. Fluorescence radiation emitted from the illumination spot is imaged into a diffraction image lying on an image plane in a diffraction-limited manner and is detected with a spatial resolution which resolves a structure of a diffraction image of the fluorescence radiation emitted from the illumination spot. The illumination spot is moved into different scanning positions relative to the sample in increments which are smaller than half the minimum extension of the illumination spot. An individual image of the structure of the diffraction image of the fluorescence radiation emitted from the illumination spot is generated for each scanning position, and an image of the sample is generated from the individual images, said image having a resolution which is increased over a resolution threshold of the imaging process. The fluorescence radiation emitted from the illumination spot is imaged into a diffraction image in a diffraction-limited manner onto a detector, said detector having an inlet surface with multiple adjacently lying local channels on the image plane. The local channels determine the spatial resolution with which the structure of the diffraction image of the fluorescence radiation emitted from the illumination spot is resolved, and the fluorescence radiation emitted from the illumination spot is spectrally evaluated. In precisely one first local channel of the adjacently lying local channels, the fluorescence radiation is guided onto a spectrometer and spectrally analyzed by means of the spectrometer, and in the remaining second local channels of the adjacently lying local channels, the fluorescence radiation is guided onto a respective detector element which detects solely the intensity of the fluorescence radiation.

Claim (Index 16):
The method as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein color data are determined from the spectral evaluation and are assigned to the image of the sample in accordance with the scanning position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.19811
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15764238', '14373602', '15457486', '14490806', '14457833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8401781072242783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5303378384233631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8091940803441868
- Mean Citation Score: 312.2490380000001
- Max Citation Score: 398.87204
- Similarity Product: 282.78339295181274

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

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