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 9):
A system comprising:\n a light-emitting diode (LED) light source configured to generate source light that is incoherent; an axicon disposed between the LED light source and a vessel containing fluid that substantially occupies three dimensions, the axicon being configured to refract the source light to produce refracted source light, wherein the axicon is configured to refract the source light such that (i) the refracted source light interacts with particles suspended in the fluid contained in the vessel to produce scattered light that is directed into a mirror, while (ii) the refracted source light, upon passing through the fluid contained within the vessel, does not impinge upon the mirror; an imager configured to acquire sequential images using the scattered light that is reflected off the mirror, wherein the LED light source, the mirror, and the imager are positioned such that, but for the axicon refracting the source light, the source light would impinge upon the imager after reflecting off the mirror; and one or more processors configured to perform image analysis on the acquired sequential images 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): 0.5316910097354207
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5206691219928972
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5305888209611684
- Mean Citation Score: 161.712227
- Max Citation Score: 327.8634600000001
- Similarity Product: 310.51797287100806

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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