PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995097
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "004000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus to treat an eye comprises an annular retention structure to couple to an anterior surface of the eye. The retention structure is coupled to a suction line to couple the retention structure to the eye with suction. A coupling sensor is coupled to the retention structure or the suction line to determine coupling of the retention structure to the eye. A fluid collecting container can be coupled to the retention structure to receive and collect liquid or viscous material from the retention structure. A fluid stop comprising a porous structure can be coupled to an outlet of the fluid collecting container to inhibit passage of the liquid or viscous material when the container has received an amount of the liquid or viscous material. The coupling sensor can be coupled upstream of the porous structure to provide a rapid measurement of the coupling of the retention structure to the eye.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of treating an eye, the method comprising:\n coupling a patient interface to the eye with suction so as to define an optically transmissive interface container on the eye, the interface container having an interface container volume comprising one or more of a liquid or a viscous material; receiving the one or more of the liquid or viscous material from the patient interface into a fluid collection container; and inhibiting flow of the liquid or viscous material with a porous structure when the fluid collection container has received an amount of the liquid or viscous material greater than the chamber volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.9434
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14068994', '15995013', '14661951', '14885213', '14256307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7828288158401452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922500073254843
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7537709349886791
- Mean Citation Score: 278.96793799999995
- Max Citation Score: 319.19876
- Similarity Product: 269.221614355309

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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