PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184190
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["359", "832000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a selective plane illumination microscopy system for capturing light emitted by an illuminated specimen, the system including a specimen support having a top surface configured to support a specimen holder and an opening configured to provide access to a bottom of the specimen holder, and a selective plane illumination microscopy optical system positioned beneath the specimen support, the optical system configured to illuminate the specimen with a sheet of excitation light and including an excitation objective, a detection objective, and an open-top, hollow imaging element that is configured to contain a liquid, wherein the imaging element is positioned within the opening of the specimen support and optical axes of the objectives are aligned with the imaging element such that the axes pass through the imaging element and intersect at a position near the top surface of the specimen support.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for performing selective plane illumination microscopy on a specimen, the method comprising:\n positioning an open-top, hollow imaging element configured to contain a liquid in an opening formed in a microscope specimen support, wherein the imaging element is positioned such that its open top is generally level with a top surface of the specimen support; positioning an excitation objective and an detection objective of a selective plane illumination microscopy optical system below the specimen support such that the optical axes of the objectives pass through the imaging element and intersect at a position near the top surface of the specimen support; illuminating the specimen contained in a specimen holder supported on the top surface of the specimen support with a sheet of laser light focused by the excitation objective; and capturing light emitted by the specimen that passes through the detection objective.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15516620', '14003380', '15040545', '14509331', '12915921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7514564333060962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5676812880405706
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7330789187795437
- Mean Citation Score: 240.82563
- Max Citation Score: 454.73117
- Similarity Product: 434.1124925564515

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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