PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "088000"]

Abstract:
A delivery system extends from a laser radiation source for connecting to a medical device that utilizes the laser radiation for medical treatment. The delivery system comprises an optical fiber connecting to a male launch connecter. The male launch connector having a body portion with the optical fiber fixed or constrained therein and the optical fiber terminating at a male ferrule with a forward directed fiber facet, the male ferrule may be cantilevered within the body portion by the optical fiber line providing freedom of movement of the male ferrule. The launch connector engages a receiving connector on the medical device first with mechanical connection portions and then more finely aligning optical connection portions by the male ferrule self aligning in a female ferrule with cooperating tapered surfaces. The male portion may fully seat in the female portion with cooperating cylindrical surfaces.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of making a connection for transmitting laser light from a laser light generator to a medical device, an optical fiber extending from the laser light generator with a launch connector attached thereto, the medical device having a receiving connector for the launch connector, the launch connector having a mechanical connection portion that interfaces with a mechanical connection portion of the receiving connector, the launch connector portion having a optical connection portion with a cylindrical male ferrule that interfaces with an optical connection portion having a female ferrule of the receiving connector, the method comprising:\n confronting the receiving connector with the launch connector; engage the respective mechanical connection portions to make an initial connection by pushing the launch connector into the receiving connector for providing a gross alignment of the optical connection portions; continue pushing the launch connector into the receiving connector until the utilizing convex tapered surfaces of the male ferrule and tapered concave surfaces of the female ferrule to make a finer alignment of the optical connection portions; continue pushing the launch connector into the cylindrical connection of the optical connection portions until the launch connector is fully seated and cylindrical surfaces of the male ferrule are engaged with cylindrical surfaces of the female ferrule thus providing a final alignment of the optical connection portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15476961', '11154023', '11660539', '12849891', '15090415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8096634396907634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5812824841638203
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.786825344138069
- Mean Citation Score: 276.855056
- Max Citation Score: 499.73236
- Similarity Product: 409.01618359018335

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

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