PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Fiber bending mechanisms vary beam characteristics by deflecting or bending one or more fibers, by urging portions of one or more fibers toward a fiber shaping surface having a selectable curvature, or by selecting a fiber length that is to be urged toward the fiber shaping surface. In some examples, a fiber is secured to a flexible plate to conform to a variable curvature of the flexible plate. In other examples, a variable length of a fiber is pulled or pushed toward a fiber shaping surface, and the length of the fiber or a curvature of the flexible plate provide modification of fiber beam characteristics.

Claim (Index 14):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the fiber shaping surface comprises a plurality of fiber shaping surfaces, wherein at least two of the plurality of fiber shaping surfaces have different surface curvatures, and each of the plurality of fiber shaping surfaces is situated so that sections of at least the first fiber are urged to conform to at least two respective fiber shaping surfaces, and the bend controller is situated to select a length of the section of at least the first fiber to be urged to conform to a corresponding fiber shaping surface of the plurality of fiber shaping surfaces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40426
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15939141', '15934959', '15937652', '15607410', '15939223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8160465888432707
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5438503569511811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7888269656540617
- Mean Citation Score: 282.934898
- Max Citation Score: 296.3604
- Similarity Product: 228.6599931439877

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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