PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "497000"]

Abstract:
An optical coherence tomography system for imaging a sample is configured so as to illuminate a region of interest of the sample with incident light from an optical source. The optical coherence tomography system is further configured so as to interfere, on an optical detector, reference light from the optical source with offset returning light emerging from the sample along an offset collection path which is spatially offset from the region of interest of the sample, thereby creating interference on the optical detector.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical coherence tomography system for use in imaging a sample, the system comprising:\n an optical splitter having an input configured to be optically coupled to an optical source, a measurement output, and a reference output; an optical coupling lens configured to illuminate a region of interest of the sample with incident light received from the optical source via the measurement output of the optical splitter and for collecting offset returning light emerging from the sample along an offset collection path which is spatially offset from the region of interest of the sample; an offset lens; and an optical combiner having a measurement input, a reference input, and an output configured to be optically coupled to an optical detector, wherein the measurement output of the optical splitter and the measurement input of the optical combiner define a measurement arm therebetween, and the reference output of the optical splitter and the reference input of the optical combiner define a reference arm therebetween, the reference arm being separate from the measurement arm, wherein the sample and the optical coupling lens are located in the measurement arm, wherein the reference arm defines a reference path for reference light, and wherein the offset lens is located in the measurement arm between the optical coupling lens and the optical combiner so as to optically couple the offset returning light to the optical combiner so that the optical combiner combines the reference light with the offset returning light to form combined light for detection at the optical detector so that the optical detector detects interference between the offset returning light and the reference light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11780793', '13012529', '14683066', '16075934', '15546365']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7105930728379418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483922448939818
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6879260104481295
- Mean Citation Score: 236.706746
- Max Citation Score: 250.71805
- Similarity Product: 214.01940452714263

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

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