PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944390
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "109000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are embodiments of fiber scanning systems and methods of scanning optical fibers. The disclosed systems and methods advantageously provide an improvement to the scanning range, the oscillation amplitude, and/or the maximum pointing angle for an optical fiber in a fiber scanning system by inducing a buckling of a portion of the optical fiber.

Claim (Index 22):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the first electromechanical transducer and the second electromechanical transducer comprise a piezo tube, wherein the piezo tube has a distal tube end and a proximal tube end, wherein the optical fiber passes through the piezo tube, and wherein the distal fiber end extends beyond the distal tube end, wherein the distal tube end and the optical fiber are mechanically coupled at a distal joint, wherein the proximal tube end and the optical fiber are mechanically coupled at a proximal joint, wherein the distal joint and the proximal joint have axial stiffnesses along a longitudinal axis of the piezo tube that are sufficient to induce buckling of the optical fiber, wherein the distal joint has a lateral stiffness that is sufficient to accommodate lateral rotation of the optical fiber during buckling, and wherein the piezo tube has an inner diameter sufficient to accommodate buckling of the optical fiber between the distal joint and the proximal joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13776700', '15107894', '11187744', '13314478', '11561303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8030579837249336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4663801235992376
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.769390197712364
- Mean Citation Score: 149.51441799999995
- Max Citation Score: 154.4656
- Similarity Product: 119.0863437207222

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

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