PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964330
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "016000"]

Abstract:
A medical laser system and related methods of utilizing cooling within and around an optical fiber tip to prevent premature failure of the optical fiber. The optical fiber is surrounded by protective jacket assembly including a body tube assembly and a tip cap assembly. The body tube assembly includes an internal fiber jacket and an external body tube with a body tube channel defined therebetween. The tip cap assembly includes an inner cap member and an outer cap member defining a cap irrigation channel therebetween. Together, the cap irrigation channel and body tube channel cooperatively define an internal irrigation channel. The optical fiber can be delivered to a treatment location through a cystoscope. Saline is directed through an external irrigation channel between the cystoscope and the protective jacket assembly as well as the internal irrigation channel to cool the fiber tip and prevent overheating and failure of the optical fiber.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:\n preventing adhesion of ablated tissue to the fiber tip by maintaining a physical gap between the fiber tip and a treatment site.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46875
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12185592', '14471945', '15253313', '11750957', '15382611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7555067897970458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.540840849211963
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7340401957385375
- Mean Citation Score: 319.34528
- Max Citation Score: 460.35107
- Similarity Product: 307.4657750834393

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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