PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868772
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["359", "398000"]

Abstract:
A specimen retaining method and slide apparatus for use with microscopes to view protozoans and similar organisms in liquid cultures. The slide assembly has a rigid rectangular base made of optically clear plastic, having a shallow well for holding the liquid culture, and a thin flexible coverslip of similar shape made of optically clear plastic placeable in the slide base to cover and retain the liquid. The base has a perimeter railing that holds the coverslip in place over the well and to prevent its disturbance when handled. The well is rectangular, oriented along the length of the base. Flat ledges extend inward from these railings to support the coverslip and to define the depth of the well. The well contains narrow ridges of height corresponding to the well depth with small liquid-distribution gaps along them to support the coverslip. These ridges constrain the specimen(s) in the liquid compartments.

Claim (Index 1):
A microscope slide assembly for magnified observation and evaluation of live microscopic organisms such as protozoans and other single-cell and multicellular animals or objects contained in a liquid culture medium said slide assembly comprising:\n a slide base member having a shallow well depression on the upper surface of said slide base for containing said organism culture medium and having provisions for receiving and supporting a cover for closing and retaining said culture medium in said well said slide base being substantially flat and rectangular in shape; a coverslip member removably placeable on the said slide base for the purpose of covering and retaining said culture medium in said well; and said slide base and coverslip members being made of optically clear material and appropriately sized to fit together with said coverslip supported on the upper surface of said slide base and over the surface area of said well to close said well in a manner that achieves a uniform depth throughout said well said well having a shallow depth consistent with microscope observation of said microscopic organisms said microscopic organisms being allowed to move freely within said liquid culture medium in said well.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88372
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15399948', '15179853', '13786356', '15179784', '11157922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7930621684235308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4738472722232502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7611406788035028
- Mean Citation Score: 169.371376
- Max Citation Score: 176.06856000000005
- Similarity Product: 117.5717016021395

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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