PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16399740
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["435", "006110"]

Abstract:
An automated system is provided for performing slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. In one embodiment, the disclosed system includes a slide tray holding a plurality of slides in a substantially horizontal position and a workstation that receives the slide tray. In a particular embodiment, a workstation delivers a reagent to slide surfaces without substantial transfer of reagent (and reagent borne contaminants such as dislodged cells) from one slide to another. A method for automated processing of slides also is provided.

Claim (Index 1):
An automated method for processing microscope slides, the method comprising:\n robotically transporting a first slide carrier to a stainer workstation of a slide processing apparatus, wherein the first slide carrier holds specimen-bearing microscope slides in a generally coplanar and spaced-apart arrangement, wherein the slide processing apparatus is operable to tilt the specimen-bearing microscope slides held by the first slide carrier and is configured to hold a plurality of slide carriers; individually delivering reagents onto each of the specimen-bearing microscope slides without having reagent delivered onto one of the specimen-bearing microscope slides contacting any of the other specimen-bearing microscope slides, wherein the delivered reagent flows off the specimen-bearing microscope slides being held at an inclined orientation, thereby facilitating removal of excess delivered reagent; and after removal of the excess delivered reagent, robotically transporting the first slide carrier to a holding station configured to hold the plurality of slide carriers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59649
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14082092', '11116676', '15351411', '11181625', '15179862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.732067391405888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6407792680886975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7229385790741689
- Mean Citation Score: 548.861714
- Max Citation Score: 614.7007
- Similarity Product: 499.5763291277705

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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