PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16069773
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "326000"]

Abstract:
Method and instrument for analysing a tissue sample. Localized concentrations of an analyte are measured at a plurality of spaced apart locations around a controlled depth. Spatial variance of the analyte is calculated based on the measured analyte concentrations. The procedure is repeated while varying the controlled depth to obtain the spatial variance as a function of depth. Tissue at a particular depth may be evaluated as tumour tissue when the spatial variance is below the threshold. For example, a section distance is calculated between the tissue surface and a depth where the measured spatial variance crosses a predetermined threshold variance. Feedback can be provided based on a comparison between a calculated section distance and a pre-set minimum section margin.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the measuring is performed using a needle comprising an optical waveguide, wherein probe light is transmitted via the optical waveguide through the needle at a controlled variable depth of the needle into ate tissue surface and an optical response of the tissue sample to the probe light is measured for calculating the concentration of the analyte at the controlled variable depth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91045
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12562050', '11792701', '13384496', '14778546', '11361143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7000916543027305
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4664053374491685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6767230226173743
- Mean Citation Score: 161.209722
- Max Citation Score: 167.96198
- Similarity Product: 128.04690050325513

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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