PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16062397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "479000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates generally to apparatus and methods for endoscopy which includes a probe, a first and a second optical fiber to guide light, a third optical fiber to capture light; and a switch configured to operate the first optical fiber and second optical fiber. Light dispersed by the first optical fiber at least partially overlaps light dispersed by the second optical.

Claim (Index 15):
An imaging method comprising the steps:\n coupling a light into a first optical fiber; acquiring a first image of a first portion of a subject; switching the light from the first optical fiber to a second optical fiber; acquiring a second image of a second portion of the subject, wherein the second portion of the subject at least partially overlaps the first portion of the subject; stitching the first image to the second image to form a combined image; and displaying the combined image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83784
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15649310', '15713233', '15115079', '15969298', '15180722']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7059310191037389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950557846654189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.684843495659907
- Mean Citation Score: 217.62521
- Max Citation Score: 231.82933
- Similarity Product: 159.07063774908482

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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