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 4):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein a first joint mechanically coupling the first electromechanical transducer and the optical fiber has a first axial stiffness along an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber, wherein a second joint mechanically coupling the second electromechanical transducer and the optical fiber has a second axial stiffness along the axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber, and wherein the first axial stiffness and the second axial stiffness are sufficient to induce buckling of the optical fiber when a distance between the first joint and the second joint is reduced by a distance between 0.1 \u03bcm and 5 \u03bcm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13776700', '15107894', '11187744', '13314478', '11561303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8003361363383505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824045524255443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.76854297794707
- Mean Citation Score: 149.51441799999995
- Max Citation Score: 154.4656
- Similarity Product: 104.39453139190674

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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