PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868457
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["351", "221000"]

Abstract:
In a corneal measurement system, an optical element focuses an excitation light to an area of corneal tissue at a selected depth. In response, a fluorescing agent applied to the cornea generates a fluorescence emission. An aperture of a pinhole structure selectively transmits the fluorescence emission from the area of corneal tissue at the selected depth. A detector captures the selected fluorescence emission transmitted by the aperture and communicates information relating to a measurement of the selected fluorescence emission captured by the detector. A controller receives the information from the detector and determines a measurement of the fluorescing agent in the area of corneal tissue at the selected depth. The system may include a scan mechanism that causes the optical element to scan the cornea at a plurality of depths, and the controller may determine a measurement of the fluorescing agent in the cornea as a function of depth.

Claim (Index 20):
The measurement system of  claim 18 , wherein the excitation light further extends in at least one lateral direction as it extends through the plurality of depths of the cornea, and the controller is further configured to scan the image to measure the fluorescence emission along the at least one lateral direction at the plurality of depths, and to determine a measurement of the fluorescing agent in the cornea as a function of depth and lateral location based on the measurement of the fluorescence emission along the at least one transverse direction at the plurality of depths, and the controller scans the image with a lenticular array of pinhole apertures that scans an array of lateral pixels along the plurality of depths through the cornea.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54839
- Patent Class: 351.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15161302', '14696672', '13488097', '13665495', '15140184']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6543784244519105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5175279714080733
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6406933791475269
- Mean Citation Score: 308.9758720000001
- Max Citation Score: 351.25692999999984
- Similarity Product: 254.8570393160437

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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