PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011011
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "301000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for aiding a surgeon to perform a surgical procedure on an eye. The surgical procedure includes inserting an elongate probe from an opening into the eye across an anterior chamber to a target tissue region comprising a trabecular meshwork and a Schlemm's canal. Exemplary systems include an optical microscope for the surgeon to view the eye with a microscope image during the procedure; an optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus configured to perform an OCT scan of a target location in the target tissue region during the procedure; and an image processing apparatus configured to generate an augmented image by overlaying an OCT image of target location and a graphical visual element identifying the locations, wherein the graphical visual element is registered with the microscope image to aid the surgeon in advancing a distal end of the elongate probe to the target location.

Claim (Index 60):
A computer system to assist a surgeon in performing a surgical procedure on an eye of a patient, the surgeon using an elongate probe having a distal end, the computer system comprising:\n a processor; an electronic storage location operatively coupled with the processor; and processor executable code stored on the electronic storage location and embodied in a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the processor executable code, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to generate a real-time view for viewing by the surgeon, the real-time view comprising (i) a microscope view of the eye or (ii) an augmented image having the microscope view or a microscope image of the eye, the augmented image further having an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image of a target tissue region, wherein the OCT image is registered with the microscope view or the microscope image, wherein a graphical visual element identifying a target location positioned in the target tissue region is overlaid the microscope view or the microscope image, wherein an actual target location is not visible in the microscope view or the microscope image, and wherein the augmented image enables the surgeon to perceive information regarding a relative position of the distal end of the elongate probe with respect to the target location when the distal end of the elongate probe is not visible in the microscope view or the microscope image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 158.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03896
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10640464', '12000477', '09860842', '11874179', '15473454']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4657567995279615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.518298981604299
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4710110177355953
- Mean Citation Score: 322.115498
- Max Citation Score: 326.25974
- Similarity Product: 222.93877025604007

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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