PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Spatially modulated light emanating from an object moving along a flow path is used to determine various object characteristics including object length along the flow direction. Light emanating from at least one object moving along in a flow path along a flow direction of a spatial filter is sensed. The intensity of the sensed light is time modulated according to features of the spatial filter. A time varying electrical signal is generated which includes a plurality of pulses in response to the sensed light. Pulse widths of at least some of the pulses are measured at a fraction of a local extremum of the pulses. The length of the object along the flow direction is determined based on the measured pulse widths.

Claim (Index 21):
A method, comprising:\n sensing light emanating from at least one object moving in a flow path along a flow direction of a spatial filter, the spatial filter having a plurality of mask features comprising first features alternating with second features along the flow direction, the first features having first light-transmission characteristics and the second features having second light transmission characteristics, different from the first light transmission characteristics, an intensity of the sensed light being time modulated according to the mask features; generating a time varying electrical signal comprising a plurality of time modulated pulses in response to the sensed light; measuring pulse widths of the pulses at a predetermined fraction of a maximum extremum of the pulses; and determining a length of the object along the flow direction based on the measured pulse widths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16949
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14181530', '14181524', '14181560', '14181571', '13113021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7706332567590617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5759992875327323
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7511698598364288
- Mean Citation Score: 328.128192
- Max Citation Score: 456.05438
- Similarity Product: 441.68682685238593

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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