PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15760953
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "009000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus to detect droplets and methods for detecting droplets are described. The apparatus comprise a light emitter and a light detector. The light emitter is to emit light along an optical axis, the light having a spatial intensity distribution profile with a peak that is non-coincident with the optical axis. The light detector is located relative to the light emitter such that, in use, the peak of the spatial intensity distribution profile is incident on the light detector.

Claim (Index 11):
A droplet detection apparatus according to  claim 10 , wherein the plural light emitters comprise a first light emitter and a second light emitter adjacent the first light emitter, and the plural light detectors comprise a first light detector and a second light detector adjacent the first light detector, wherein the first light detector is to detect light emitted from the first light emitter and the second light detector is to detect light emitted from the second light emitter, and wherein light emitted from the first light emitter is not detectable by the second light detector and light emitted from the second light emitter is not detectable by the first light detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97674
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16098118', '10325300', '15380125', '13614294', '16067294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7385847644288709
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737644412831039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7121027321142942
- Mean Citation Score: 127.7776488
- Max Citation Score: 146.35419
- Similarity Product: 100.8557120324564

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

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