PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Spatially modulated light emanating from an object moving along a flow path is used to determine various object characteristics including object length along the flow direction. Light emanating from at least one object moving along in a flow path along a flow direction of a spatial filter is sensed. The intensity of the sensed light is time modulated according to features of the spatial filter. A time varying electrical signal is generated which includes a plurality of pulses in response to the sensed light. Pulse widths of at least some of the pulses are measured at a fraction of a local extremum of the pulses. The length of the object along the flow direction is determined based on the measured pulse widths.

Claim (Index 22):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein determining the length of the object comprises:\n determining a function, f({p i },x) that fits the set of mask feature measurement points {p i }, each point given by p i =(x i ,y i ), where each x i  is associated with a feature length of an i th  mask feature and y i  is associated with an i th  measured pulse width associated with the i th  mask feature; the function predicting an expected pulse width measurement of an hypothesized mask feature of length x based on the mask feature measurement points {p i }; and extrapolating the object length using the function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16949
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14181530', '14181524', '14181560', '14181571', '13113021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.790906474909883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5784352146351787
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7696593488824126
- Mean Citation Score: 328.128192
- Max Citation Score: 456.05438
- Similarity Product: 443.0652747194098

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