PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "458100"]

Abstract:
In one aspect, the present teachings provide a system for performing cytometry that can be operated in three operational modes. In one operational mode, a fluorescence image of a sample is obtained by exciting one or more fluorophore(s) present in the sample by an excitation beam formed as a superposition of a top-hat-shaped beam with a plurality of beams that are radiofrequency shifted relative to one another. In another operational mode, a sample can be illuminated successively over a time interval by a laser beam at a plurality of excitation frequencies in a scanning fashion. The fluorescence emission from the sample can be detected and analyzed, e.g., to generate a fluorescence image of the sample. In yet another operational mode, the system can be operated to illuminate a plurality of locations of a sample concurrently by a single excitation frequency, which can be generated, e.g., by shifting the central frequency of a laser beam by a radiofrequency. For example, a horizontal extent of the sample can be illuminated by a laser beam at a single excitation frequency. The detected fluorescence radiation can be used to analyze the fluorescence content of the sample, e.g., a cell/particle.

Claim (Index 49):
The method according to  claim 48 , wherein frequency de-multiplexing comprises obtaining a Fourier Transform of the fluorescence signal to determine the beat frequency at each overlap location on the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41111
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15292582', '15462124', '15961678', '14792282', '15221065']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.743815931967251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5918551597143776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7286198547419637
- Mean Citation Score: 385.25922
- Max Citation Score: 549.40704
- Similarity Product: 410.5002131695746

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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