PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "335000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus to provide multi-beam imaging of particles includes a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) configured to generate a plurality of light beams that converge with each other to form a measurement volume within a particle field. The plurality of the VCSELs are configured to provide uniformity in a background illumination of the measurement volume. An imaging optics is coupled to at least one of the plurality of VCSELs. A digital camera is coupled to the imaging optics to obtain a shadow image of a particle passing through the measurement volume at a focal plane of the digital camera. A processor is coupled to the digital camera.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein processor is configured to monitor the background illumination, wherein the processor is configured to adjust an intensity of at least one of the plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers based on the monitored background illumination to obtain the first shadow image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98305
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15552263', '14304872', '15040975', '13363181', '15518456']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7241459342191261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5173337638509189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7034647171823054
- Mean Citation Score: 221.0188
- Max Citation Score: 325.4178
- Similarity Product: 264.0518572566748

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

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