PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056597
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "039000"]

Abstract:
Fluid cooled optical fibers are disclosed. An exemplary fiber comprises a fiber body including a distal end, an inner cap surrounding said distal end, an outer cap surrounding said inner cap, and a tube attached to said outer cap. The tube and outer cap may define a first flow channel, the outer and inner caps may define a second flow channel, and the outer cap may including one or openings for placing the first flow channel in communication with the second flow channel. Associated systems also are disclosed.

Claim (Index 31):
A method of cooling a medical device comprising:\n coupling a medical device to a laser energy source and to a fluid source, wherein the medical device includes an optical fiber with a fiber body, an inner cap surrounding a distal end of the fiber body, an outer cap surrounding the inner cap, and a tube surrounding at least a portion of the fiber body and attached to the outer cap; delivering laser energy from the laser energy source through the optical fiber; and delivering a fluid from the fluid source through a first flow channel between the optical fiber and the tube, through one or more openings in the outer cap such that the fluid flows through a second flow channel between the outer cap and the inner cap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06383
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15847650', '14471945', '12185592', '14493032', '15253313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8002177205373486
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5051510395698614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7707110524405999
- Mean Citation Score: 205.21731
- Max Citation Score: 274.56076
- Similarity Product: 212.42908346119168

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

Dataset: test