PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Fiber bending mechanisms vary beam characteristics by deflecting or bending one or more fibers, by urging portions of one or more fibers toward a fiber shaping surface having a selectable curvature, or by selecting a fiber length that is to be urged toward the fiber shaping surface. In some examples, a fiber is secured to a flexible plate to conform to a variable curvature of the flexible plate. In other examples, a variable length of a fiber is pulled or pushed toward a fiber shaping surface, and the length of the fiber or a curvature of the flexible plate provide modification of fiber beam characteristics.

Claim (Index 28):
The apparatus of  claim 27 , wherein the bend controller includes a stage situated to urge the mandrel towards the first length of fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40426
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15939141', '15934959', '15937652', '15607410', '15939223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8150650495208794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5541310074921467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7889716453180062
- Mean Citation Score: 282.934898
- Max Citation Score: 296.3604
- Similarity Product: 176.24693676209455

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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