PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113489
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A system is described to facilitate the characterization of particles within a fluid contained in a vessel using an illumination system that directs source light through each vessel. One or more optical elements may be implemented to refract the source light and to illuminate the entire volume of the vessel. As the refracted source light passes through the vessel and interacts with particles suspended in the fluid, scattered light is produced and directed to an imager, while the refracted source light is diverted away from the imager to prevent the source light from drowning out the scattered light. The system can therefore advantageously utilize an imager with a large depth of field to accurately image the entire volume of fluid at the same time, facilitating the determination of the number and size of particles suspended in the fluid.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for calculating a size and a number of particles in a fluid contained in a vessel, the fluid contained within the vessel substantially occupying three dimensions, comprising:\n generating, via a light source, source light that is incoherent; refracting, via an optical element that is separate from the light source and is disposed between the light source and the vessel, the source light to produce refracted source light; supplying, via an optical system, scattered light to an imager as a result of an interaction between the refracted source light and particles suspended in the fluid,\n wherein the optical element, is configured to refract the source light such that, once the refracted source light has passed through the fluid contained within the vessel, \n the refracted source light does not impinge upon the imager, and\n wherein the light source and the imager are positioned such that, but for the optical element refracting the source light, the source light would impinge upon the imager; \n acquiring, via the imager, sequential images using the supplied scattered light; and performing image analysis on the acquired sequential images, via one or more processors, to determine a size and a number of particles in the fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95946
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15429458', '15193704', '15256429', '15192920', '14241861']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5316724072948927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5211674297438311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5306219095397866
- Mean Citation Score: 161.712227
- Max Citation Score: 327.8634600000001
- Similarity Product: 305.73514032869343

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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