PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16418444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "008000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary light control devices and methods provide a regional variation of visual information and sampling (“V-VIS”) of an ocular field of view that improves or stabilizes vision, ameliorates a visual symptom, reduces the rate of vision loss, or reduces the progression of an ophthalmic or neurologic condition, disease, injury or disorder. The V-VIS devices and methods may optically move, at a sampling rate between 50 hertz and 50 kilohertz, one or more apertures anterior to a retina between one or more positions anterior to the retina that are non-coaxial with a center of a pupil and a position anterior to the retina that is coaxial with the center of the pupil. Certain of these V-VIS devices and methods may be combined with augmented or virtual reality, vision measurement, vision monitoring, or other therapies including, but not limited to, pharmacological, gene, retinal replacement and stem cell therapies.

Claim (Index 20):
A light control device, comprising:\n one or more layers disposed anterior to a retina of an eye; one or more optically active materials disposed on a surface of, or within, the one or more layers; and a controller coupled to a power source, the controller being coupled electrically to the one or more optically active materials via an electrically conductive layer and being configured to generate and route control signals to the one or more optically active materials in accordance with a temporal sequence; wherein anterior to the retina comprises one of extraocular, intracorneal or intraocular placement; wherein, upon receipt of the control signals, the one or more optically active materials produce one or more areas on the surface of, or within, the one or more layers having an altered transparency, the one or more areas defining one or more apertures that include transparent areas; and wherein the one or more apertures appear optically at spatially separated or overlapping positions on the surface of, or within, the one or more layers in accordance with the temporal sequence, at least one of the spatially separated or overlapping positions being non-coaxial with a center of a pupil of the eye; and wherein the one or more apertures generate a moving aperture effect that samples and delivers to the retina environmental light from an ocular field of view at a sampling rate between 50 hertz and 50 kilohertz.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89773
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16222476', '15903923', '13594416', '15813645', '15332132']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.650037718678441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5817872001014803
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6432126668207448
- Mean Citation Score: 299.767332
- Max Citation Score: 473.6719
- Similarity Product: 464.16515604107377

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