PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16399740
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["435", "006110"]

Abstract:
An automated system is provided for performing slide processing operations on slides bearing biological samples. In one embodiment, the disclosed system includes a slide tray holding a plurality of slides in a substantially horizontal position and a workstation that receives the slide tray. In a particular embodiment, a workstation delivers a reagent to slide surfaces without substantial transfer of reagent (and reagent borne contaminants such as dislodged cells) from one slide to another. A method for automated processing of slides also is provided.

Claim (Index 15):
An automated slide processing system, comprising:\n at least one transporter device; a stainer workstation; and at least one controller with one or more processors and being programmed to cause the automated slide processing system to perform actions including\n robotically transporting a slide carrier to the stainer workstation of an enclosed slide processing apparatus using the at least one transporter device, the slide carrier is configured to hold a plurality of specimen-bearing microscope slides at a generally co-planar arrangement, \n individually delivering reagent streams onto upper surfaces of the specimen-bearing microscope slides in the stainer workstation, \n positioning the specimen-bearing microscope slides at one or more inclined positions to promote flow of excess delivered reagent along and off the upper surface, and \n after the delivered reagent has been removed from the specimen-bearing microscope slides, robotically transporting the specimen-bearing microscope slides away from the stainer workstation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59649
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14082092', '11116676', '15351411', '11181625', '15179862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7315497624965025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6423892493818291
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7226337111850352
- Mean Citation Score: 548.861714
- Max Citation Score: 614.7007
- Similarity Product: 505.2805477466941

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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