PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16204593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "037000"]

Abstract:
An intravascular or other 2D or 3D imaging apparatus can include a minimally-invasive distal imaging guidewire portion. A plurality of thin optical fibers can be circumferentially distributed about a cylindrical guidewire core, such as in an spiral-wound or otherwise attached optical fiber ribbon. A low refractive index coating, high numerical aperture (NA) fiber, or other technique can be used to overcome challenges of using extremely thin optical fibers. Coating and ribbonizing techniques are described. Also described are non-uniform refractive index peak amplitudes or wavelengths techniques for FBG writing, using a depressed index optical cladding, chirping, a self-aligned connector, optical fiber routing and alignment techniques for a system connector, and an adapter for connecting to standard optical fiber coupling connectors.

Claim (Index 13):
The optical fiber assembly of  claim 2 , wherein the optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers, each optical fiber having an outer diameter of between 25 micrometers and 30 micrometers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63415
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14774654', '14949605', '11285499', '12192169', '14045189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.832978966689234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5755345480206936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.80723452482238
- Mean Citation Score: 276.23251600000003
- Max Citation Score: 521.87494
- Similarity Product: 372.8383719676948

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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