PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16204593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "037000"]

Abstract:
An intravascular or other 2D or 3D imaging apparatus can include a minimally-invasive distal imaging guidewire portion. A plurality of thin optical fibers can be circumferentially distributed about a cylindrical guidewire core, such as in an spiral-wound or otherwise attached optical fiber ribbon. A low refractive index coating, high numerical aperture (NA) fiber, or other technique can be used to overcome challenges of using extremely thin optical fibers. Coating and ribbonizing techniques are described. Also described are non-uniform refractive index peak amplitudes or wavelengths techniques for FBG writing, using a depressed index optical cladding, chirping, a self-aligned connector, optical fiber routing and alignment techniques for a system connector, and an adapter for connecting to standard optical fiber coupling connectors.

Claim (Index 11):
The optical fiber assembly of  claim 10 , wherein the multiple replicas of the first connector include:\n a first replica, configured to be coupled to the first connector via individual fiber channels; a second replica, configured to be coupled to the first replica via ribbon channels of the first and second replicas, and configured to be coupled to the second connector via individual optical fiber channels, with unoccupied optical fiber ribbon channels being used to provide a wider pitch of optical fibers at the individual optical fiber channels of the second replica than of optical fibers at the first connector; and a third replica, configured to be coupled to the first replica via ribbon channels of the first and third replicas, and configured to be coupled to the second connector via individual optical fiber channels, with unoccupied optical fiber channels being used to provide a wider pitch of optical fibers at the individual optical fiber channels of the third replica than of optical fibers at the first connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63415
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14774654', '14949605', '11285499', '12192169', '14045189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.830371162964869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5866246290494966
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8059965095733318
- Mean Citation Score: 276.23251600000003
- Max Citation Score: 521.87494
- Similarity Product: 423.8586504714775

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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