PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16171980
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["422", "536000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein relate to an apparatus for positioning and securing an excised biological tissue specimen for imaging and analysis. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a sample bag defining an inner volume configured to receive a biological tissue sample, and a sealing member coupled to the sample bag. An imaging window is disposed and configured to be placed in contact with at least a portion of the biological tissue sample, and a positioning member is coupled to the imaging window and is configured to be disposed against the sealing member to substantially seal the inner volume. The positioning member includes a vacuum port disposed and configured to be aligned with a vacuum source to withdraw air from the inner volume of the sample bag.

Claim (Index 51):
The method of  claim 49 , further comprising:\n communicating air out of the sample container such that the inner volume of the sample bag is reduced and such the sample bag maintains the biological tissue sample in substantially the same position against the imaging window during analysis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23729
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15410669', '13383318', '12830078', '15765145', '13522353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7591465489278676
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.470755391999996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7303074332350805
- Mean Citation Score: 124.06318
- Max Citation Score: 132.16464
- Similarity Product: 89.5253484605026

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

Dataset: test