PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982999
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "432000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides methods and devices for generating optical pulses in one or more waveguides using a spatially scanning light source. A detection system, methods of use thereof and kits for detecting a biologically active analyte molecule are also provided. The system includes a scanning light source, a substrate comprising a plurality of waveguides and a plurality of optical sensing sites in optical communication with one or more waveguide of the substrate, a detector that is coupled to and in optical communication with the substrate, and means for spatially translating a light beam emitted from said scanning light source such that the light beam is coupled to and in optical communication with the waveguides of the substrate at some point along its scanning path. The use of a scanning light source allows the coupling of light into the waveguides of the substrate in a simple and cost-effective manner.

Claim (Index 16):
The detection system of  claim 14 ,\n wherein the light source is in optical communication with one or more of the excitation waveguides at the first edge of the substrate; and wherein the detector is in optical communication with one or more of the collection waveguides at the first edge of the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14194437', '12769364', '15284396', '13109280', '11683808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8123850127056659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.565006713300553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7876471827651547
- Mean Citation Score: 434.22747
- Max Citation Score: 460.08234
- Similarity Product: 401.3509541770363

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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