PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["250", "459100"]

Abstract:
A flow cytometer including a laser, indexing structure, adjustment structure, and sensor structure. The cytometer is conventionally used with a removable microfluidic cassette, which is installed at a first position that is enforced by the indexing structure. The adjustment structure changes a relative position between an interrogation aperture of the cassette and the laser beam. Feedback from the sensor structure is used to optimize propagation of the laser through the interrogation aperture to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) autofluorescence caused by beam impingement onto the cassette.

Claim (Index 1):
A microfluidic interrogation apparatus, comprising:\n indexing structure effective to hold a microfluidic device at an installed position such that an interrogation aperture of said microfluidic device is urged near to a desired location, said microfluidic device being of the type arranged to urge particles of interest through said interrogation aperture in a substantially single-file arrangement; a source of stimulation radiation structured to emit radiation as a beam oriented for propagation of radiation in a particular direction; adjustment means to refine alignment of said interrogation aperture, from an initially installed position, and with respect to said beam, to maximize beam propagation into said interrogation aperture; sensor means disposed to provide steering feedback to said adjustment means; and a first photodetector disposed to detect Stokes-shift emission radiation from a particle disposed inside said interrogation aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79245
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13492805', '14801367', '15362356', '14287188', '13666131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7452820665953659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5806425922021414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7288181191560436
- Mean Citation Score: 423.158846
- Max Citation Score: 465.17355
- Similarity Product: 461.97127739665217

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

Dataset: test