PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15781065
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["359", "291000"]

Abstract:
An optical probe scanning assembly for use in an optical probe includes a mirror assembly that focuses an illumination beam path and a collection beam path at a region of interest within the sample. The illumination beam and the collection beam overlap to form a confocal beam region. The mirror assembly is movable in an x-axis direction and in a y-axis direction to scan the confocal beam region within the sample. The scanning assembly further includes a scanning suspension system including a gimbal assembly connected to the mirror assembly to allow the mirror assembly to rotate about one or more axes. The mirror is thereby adapted to scan along at least two different orthogonal planes, one of which extends vertically into the sample.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical probe scanning assembly for use in an optical probe having a housing having a proximal end and a distal end positioned at a sample, the scanning assembly comprising:\n a mirror assembly configured to focus an illumination beam path and a collection beam path at a region of interest within the sample where the illumination beam and the collection beam overlap to form a confocal beam region, the mirror assembly being movable in an x-axis direction and in a y-axis direction to scan the confocal beam region within the sample; and a scanning suspension system comprising a gimbal assembly connected to the mirror assembly to allow the mirror assembly to rotate about one or more axes, such that the mirror is adapted to scan along at least two different orthogonal planes, one of which extends vertically into the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01562
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11287678', '13403614', '14302793', '13354541', '10880008']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7908960448776446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4595966705586161
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7577661074457418
- Mean Citation Score: 173.99172
- Max Citation Score: 180.7375
- Similarity Product: 139.68233712613585

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

Dataset: test