PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "088000"]

Abstract:
A delivery system extends from a laser radiation source for connecting to a medical device that utilizes the laser radiation for medical treatment. The delivery system comprises an optical fiber connecting to a male launch connecter. The male launch connector having a body portion with the optical fiber fixed or constrained therein and the optical fiber terminating at a male ferrule with a forward directed fiber facet, the male ferrule may be cantilevered within the body portion by the optical fiber line providing freedom of movement of the male ferrule. The launch connector engages a receiving connector on the medical device first with mechanical connection portions and then more finely aligning optical connection portions by the male ferrule self aligning in a female ferrule with cooperating tapered surfaces. The male portion may fully seat in the female portion with cooperating cylindrical surfaces.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical fiber connector coupling for connecting a laser radiation source to a device, the coupling comprising a launch connector with a mechanical connection portion and an optical connection portion comprising a male ferrule with connected to an optical fiber, the male ferrule resiliently supported within a body portion of the launch connector, the male ferrule having a cylindrical outer surface, the coupling further comprising a receiving connector, the receiving portion comprising a mechanical connection portion for cooperating with the mechanical connection portion of the launch connector, and an optical connection portion comprising a female ferrule, the female ferrule having an internal cylindrical surface that slidingly engages the cylindrical outer surface of the male ferrule, the female ferrule not having a stop surface limiting the insertion distance of the male ferrule into the female ferrule, the male ferrule resiliently supported within a body portion of the launch connector by an elastomeric material positioned rearwardly of the male ferrule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15476961', '11154023', '11660539', '12849891', '15090415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8102704121884545
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5790144839002553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7871448193596347
- Mean Citation Score: 276.855056
- Max Citation Score: 499.73236
- Similarity Product: 397.3018596477556

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

Dataset: test