PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "370000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods are described for determining the tomography and/or topography of an object. A light source generates light, and an optical element generates a 2D pattern from the light and directs the 2D pattern toward the object. An objective lens focuses the 2D pattern at an image plane, and a 2D imager acquires at least one image of the 2D pattern. The image has variable image contrast that varies according to displacement of a surface of the object from the image plane, such that maximal image contrast of the 2D pattern is achieved when the surface of the object and the image plane are coincident. A processing unit, operatively coupled to the 2D imager, derives the object's tomography and/or topography at least partially responsively to the variable image contrast of the image. Other applications are also described.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the optical element comprises a slide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15311280', '12532262', '13320576', '11378536', '14296472']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6524823453225331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5576687356210205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.643000984352382
- Mean Citation Score: 271.972896
- Max Citation Score: 428.52908
- Similarity Product: 376.2505079898143

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