PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933160
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for a multi-operation optical beam delivery device having a laser source to generate the optical beam. A beam characteristic conditioner that, in response to a control input indicating a change between the different laser process operations, controllably modifies the beam characteristics for a corresponding laser process operation of the different laser process operations. A delivery fiber has an input end coupled to the beam characteristic conditioner and an output end coupled to a process head for performing the corresponding laser process operation.

Claim (Index 2):
The multi-operation optical beam delivery device of  claim 1 , in which the beam characteristic conditioner includes:\n a first length of fiber through which the optical beam propagates and which has a first refractive index profile (RIP), the first RIP enabling, in response to an applied perturbation, modification of the beam characteristics to form an adjusted optical beam having modified beam characteristics; and a second length of fiber coupled to the first length of fiber and having multiple confinement regions defining a second RIP that is different from the first RIP, the multiple confinement regions arranged to confine at least a portion of the adjusted optical beam and generate from it, at an output of the second length of fiber, an adjustable spatial or angular distribution that, in response to the applied perturbation, changes for facilitating the corresponding laser process operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15906728', '15885563', '15885633', '15607411', '15882292']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8404847814241951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5027301060744529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.806709313889221
- Mean Citation Score: 277.593646
- Max Citation Score: 295.57986
- Similarity Product: 262.6467467588818

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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