PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868457
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["351", "221000"]

Abstract:
In a corneal measurement system, an optical element focuses an excitation light to an area of corneal tissue at a selected depth. In response, a fluorescing agent applied to the cornea generates a fluorescence emission. An aperture of a pinhole structure selectively transmits the fluorescence emission from the area of corneal tissue at the selected depth. A detector captures the selected fluorescence emission transmitted by the aperture and communicates information relating to a measurement of the selected fluorescence emission captured by the detector. A controller receives the information from the detector and determines a measurement of the fluorescing agent in the area of corneal tissue at the selected depth. The system may include a scan mechanism that causes the optical element to scan the cornea at a plurality of depths, and the controller may determine a measurement of the fluorescing agent in the cornea as a function of depth.

Claim (Index 1):
A measurement system for a cornea, comprising:\n a light source configured to emit an excitation light that causes a fluorescing agent applied to a cornea to generate a fluorescence emission; at least one optical element positioned to receive the excitation light from the light source and configured to focus the excitation light to an area of corneal tissue at a selected depth of the cornea, the fluorescing agent in the cornea generating the fluorescence emission in response to the excitation light; a pinhole structure including an aperture, the pinhole structure positioned to receive the fluorescence emission from the fluorescing agent in the cornea, the aperture being configured to selectively transmit the fluorescence emission from the area of corneal tissue at the selected depth; a detector positioned to capture the selected fluorescence emission transmitted by the aperture and configured to communicate information relating to a measurement of the selected fluorescence emission captured by the detector; and a controller communicatively coupled to the detector and configured to receive the information from the detector and to determine, based on the information, a measurement of the fluorescing agent in the area of corneal tissue at the selected depth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54839
- Patent Class: 351.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15161302', '14696672', '13488097', '13665495', '15140184']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6265396711662953
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5134459673707945
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6152303007867452
- Mean Citation Score: 308.9758720000001
- Max Citation Score: 351.25692999999984
- Similarity Product: 293.9969462479341

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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