PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16177946
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["351", "206000"]

Abstract:
A method of automatically detecting a retinal feature using an ophthalmic imaging system and automatically providing at least one of an audio, visual, and tactile indication of the detected retinal feature to a user.

Claim (Index 15):
A method, comprising:\n acquiring an OCT image of a retina with an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system of an ophthalmic surgical system,; segmenting the OCT image by an image processor of the ophthalmic surgical system; generating, by the image processor, the a plurality of metrics based on the segmented OCT image, wherein the plurality of metrics includes:\n a thickness of a first retinal feature in a first area of the retina and a second area of the retina; and \n a radius of curvature of second retinal feature in the first area of the retina and the second area of the retina; \n wherein the first and the second areas of the retina are adjacent; \n determining, by the image processor, at least one of the following:\n the thickness of the first retinal feature in the first area is less than the thickness of the first retinal feature in the second area and the radius of curvature of the second retinal feature in the first area is greater than the radius of curvature of the second retinal feature in the second area; and \n a difference in the thickness of the first retinal feature in the first area and the second area meets or exceeds a first threshold and a difference in the radius of curvature of the second retinal feature in the first area and the second area meets or exceeds a second threshold; and \n based on the determination, providing at least one of an audio, visual, and tactile indicator to indicate a location of a probable retinal break to a user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32143
- Patent Class: 351.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14309618', '15188839', '15333778', '13488280', '15246036']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.550102012196681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5409522704694707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.54918703802396
- Mean Citation Score: 244.402822
- Max Citation Score: 420.13974
- Similarity Product: 347.8404990808046

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

Dataset: test