PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944390
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "109000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are embodiments of fiber scanning systems and methods of scanning optical fibers. The disclosed systems and methods advantageously provide an improvement to the scanning range, the oscillation amplitude, and/or the maximum pointing angle for an optical fiber in a fiber scanning system by inducing a buckling of a portion of the optical fiber.

Claim (Index 26):
A method comprising:\n applying a first voltage to an optical fiber scanning system to induce whirling of an optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber scanning system includes:\n the optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber has a distal fiber end and a proximal fiber end; \n a first electromechanical transducer mechanically coupled to the optical fiber between the distal fiber end and the proximal fiber end, wherein the first electromechanical transducer is configured to apply a buckling force to the optical fiber; and \n a second electromechanical transducer mechanically coupled to the optical fiber between the distal fiber end and the proximal fiber end, wherein the second electromechanical transducer is configured to excite whirling of the distal fiber end; and \n applying a second voltage to the optical fiber scanning system to induce buckling of the optical fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13776700', '15107894', '11187744', '13314478', '11561303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7837387288653185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4632029608525315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7516851520640397
- Mean Citation Score: 149.51441799999995
- Max Citation Score: 154.4656
- Similarity Product: 119.90476976833344

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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