PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16075934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "479000"]

Abstract:
Various systems and methods for sequential angle illumination to achieve ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. One example OCT system includes a light source, a beam divider, sample arm optics, a detector, and a processor. The light source generates a light beam to illuminate the sample. The beam divider separates the light beam into reference and sample arms. The sample arm optics sequentially illuminates a location in the sample with the light beam from different angles. The detector receives light returned from the reference arm and the sample illuminated at each angle and generates signals. The processor combines the signals to generate an image, which has a transverse resolution that is higher than the transverse resolution achieved from the signal generated from a single angle.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system comprising:\n a light source for generating a light beam to illuminate a sample; a beam divider for separating the light beam into reference and sample arms, wherein the sample arm contains the sample to be imaged; sample arm optics for sequentially illuminating a location in the sample with the light beam from different angles; a detector for receiving light returning from the reference arm and the sample illuminated at each angle and generating signals in response thereto; a processor for coherently combining the signals from the different angles to generate an image of the sample, said image having a transverse resolution that is higher than the transverse resolution achieved from the signal generated from a single angle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15782018', '15951198', '15546365', '14683066', '15025410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7382717166155713
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4941524961430654
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7138597945683207
- Mean Citation Score: 272.078876
- Max Citation Score: 277.08282
- Similarity Product: 244.1587956374216

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