PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "497000"]

Abstract:
An optical coherence tomography system for imaging a sample is configured so as to illuminate a region of interest of the sample with incident light from an optical source. The optical coherence tomography system is further configured so as to interfere, on an optical detector, reference light from the optical source with offset returning light emerging from the sample along an offset collection path which is spatially offset from the region of interest of the sample, thereby creating interference on the optical detector.

Claim (Index 26):
An optical coherence tomography method for use in imaging a sample, the method comprising:\n using an optical splitter to split light received from an optical source into measurement light and reference light; using an optical coupling lens to illuminate a region of interest of the sample with the measurement light and to collect offset returning light emerging from the sample along an offset collection path which is spatially offset from the region of interest of the sample; using an offset lens located between the optical coupling lens and an optical combiner so as to optically couple the offset returning light to the optical combiner so that the optical combiner combines the reference light with the offset returning light to form combined light for detection at an optical detector so that the optical detector detects interference between the offset returning light and the reference light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11780793', '13012529', '14683066', '16075934', '15546365']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7103610919525086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852013204306316
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.687845114800321
- Mean Citation Score: 236.706746
- Max Citation Score: 250.71805
- Similarity Product: 210.61077684441508

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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