PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208557
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["356", "445000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for automated laser microdissection are disclosed including automatic slide detection, position detection of cutting and capture lasers, focus optimization for cutting and capture lasers, energy and duration optimization for cutting and capture lasers, inspection and second phase capture and/or ablation in a quality control station and tracking information for linking substrate carrier or output microdissected regions with input sample or slide.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for optimizing the focus of a laser beam in a laser microdissection instrument comprising the steps of:\n providing a laser microdissection instrument having a worksurface; providing a first laser source and laser focusing lens on a first side of the worksurface; providing an objective lens and image acquisition system on a second side of the worksurface; providing a sample on the worksurface; focusing the objective lens on the sample for a clear image of the sample acquired by the image acquisition system; activating the first laser source to emit a laser beam directed at the sample; focusing the laser beam from the first laser source by moving the laser focusing lens; re-focusing the objective lens at least once on the sample by moving the objective lens a distance; and keeping the first laser source at the desired focus by moving the focusing lens by substantially the same distance that the objective lens was moved when re-focused.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15434200', '11236045', '10982230', '14270275', '11222281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7365386375724492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5345369631149244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7163384701266967
- Mean Citation Score: 312.8539140000001
- Max Citation Score: 386.49854
- Similarity Product: 288.5995152124297

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

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