PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["359", "263000"]

Abstract:
A multi-channel optical imaging and stimulation system includes a light source to deliver light beams into a light guide. Different light beams are coupled into different spatial modes supported by the light guide. The light guide includes multiple segments, each of which defines a window to couple a specified group of spatial modes out of the light guide to illuminate or stimulate a target. Light reflected, scattered, or emitted by the target is also collected by the windows in the light guide. The light collected by different windows is detected by different pixels of a detector, thereby creating a correspondence between the pixel location and the spatial location of site at which the light is collected. An image of the target is then reconstructed based on this correspondence.

Claim (Index 28):
A system for imaging a target, the system comprises:\n an array of LEDs to emit an array of light beams; a beam splitter, in optical communication with the array of LEDs, to receive the array of light beams; an input lens, in optical communication with the beam splitter; a light waveguide in optical communication with the input lens, the input lens transmitting a first light beam in the array of light beams toward the light waveguide at a first incident angle so as to excite a first spatial mode and transmitting a second light beam in the array of light beams toward the light waveguide at a second incident angle so as to excite a second spatial mode, the light waveguide comprising:\n a first facet to transmit the first spatial mode out of the light waveguide and to couple light into the first spatial mode from the target; and \n a second facet to transmit the second spatial mode out of the light waveguide and to couple light into the second spatial mode from the target; and \n a detector, in optical communication with the beam splitter, to generate an image of at least a portion of the target, the detector comprising:\n a first pixel to sense light collected by the first facet; and \n a second pixel to sense light collected by the second facet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97143
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11372981', '10117445', '09968974', '14389275', '15165960']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8350739845865834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899047720426319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8005570633321883
- Mean Citation Score: 209.529824
- Max Citation Score: 214.7058
- Similarity Product: 172.9231840820074

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

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