PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913539
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["435", "029000"]

Abstract:
A specimen holding and positioning apparatus operable to substantially non-movably maintain a specimen (e.g., an excised tissue specimen) in a fixed or stable orientation with respect to the apparatus during imaging operations (e.g., x-ray imaging), transport (e.g., from a surgery room to a pathologist's laboratory), and the like for use in facilitating accurate detection and diagnosis of cancers and/or other abnormalities of the specimen.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of imaging a specimen, comprising:\n elastically deforming first and second retention members of a positioning apparatus to surround opposing portions of a specimen; securing the first and second retention members against movement relative to each other to retain the specimen therebetween within a specimen support volume of the apparatus, wherein a reference plane extends between the first and second retention members when the specimen is retained therebetween; first imaging the specimen along a first axis that is one of substantially parallel or perpendicular to the reference plane to obtain a first image; reorienting the apparatus; and second imaging the specimen along a second axis that is the other of substantially parallel or perpendicular to the reference plane to obtain a second image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5098
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15913352', '15251061', '13868868', '13385980', '14730799']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6070365653814066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5574394956663384
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6020768584098998
- Mean Citation Score: 286.98577400000005
- Max Citation Score: 440.29538
- Similarity Product: 375.83722344295614

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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