PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, and systems comprising a fiber-coupled laser and time-varying beam characteristics. A laser may generate an optical beam that is launched into one or more lengths of fiber, at least one of which comprises a confinement region that is optically coupled to an output. A perturbation device may modulate, through action upon the one or more lengths of fiber, a beam characteristic over a time period during which the laser is energized. A controller may cause the perturbation device to act upon the one or more lengths of fiber to impart a time-averaged beam characteristic and/or to induce a continuous variation in one or more beam characteristics during system use. A process monitor may sense a metric external to the optical system, and a feedback signal from the process monitor may be coupled into the controller. Dynamic beam characteristics may be modulated based on the feedback signal.

Claim (Index 4):
The beam delivery system of  claim 1 , further comprising a process monitor to output a feedback signal to the controller, wherein the process monitor is to detect a response external of the delivery system that is indicative of a process metric, and wherein the controller is to vary the one or more beam characteristics based on the feedback signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10526
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15924090', '15924096', '15607411', '15885563', '15906728']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7733116561804654
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494277985194046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7454082890818234
- Mean Citation Score: 320.77743
- Max Citation Score: 342.41913
- Similarity Product: 228.2883050534713

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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