PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "006000"]

Abstract:
For test/calibration of an electro-optic range-finding device, one or more fiber bundles each are selected to have a length corresponding to predetermined time-of-flight for light pulses. An input end is positioned proximate to the laser aperture of the range-finding device to receive a portion of light emitted through the laser aperture, and the output end is positioned to emit light from the respective fiber bundle through the detector aperture of the range-finding device. A fiber attenuator is connected along each fiber of the one or more fiber bundles to attenuate an amplitude of light propagating through the respective fiber by an amount corresponding to a target of known reflectance and distance. The one or more fiber bundles are each coiled to reduce a linear distance over which the one or more fiber bundles extend. The one or more fiber bundles may each comprise a plurality of fibers.

Claim (Index 16):
The method according to  claim 10 , wherein the one or more fiber bundles comprise a plurality of fibers, the method further comprising:\n disposing a positional mask between at least one of the input ends and the output ends of the fibers, the positional mask including an aperture that one of\n allows light from the laser aperture to enter one of the fibers while blocking light from the laser aperture from entering remaining ones of the fibers, or \n allows light from one of the fibers to enter the detector aperture while blocking light from remaining ones of the fibers from entering the detector aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16901
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15851686', '10836022', '15841340', '15189580', '11320675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7000081601245144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824945019211356
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6782567943041765
- Mean Citation Score: 186.72782
- Max Citation Score: 200.2699
- Similarity Product: 144.3025069710135

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