PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245349
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "031000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, the beam parameter product and/or beam shape of a laser beam is adjusted by coupling the laser beam into an optical fiber of a fiber bundle and directing the laser beam onto one or more in-coupling locations on the input end of the optical fiber. The beam emitted at the output end of the optical fiber may be utilized to process a workpiece.

Claim (Index 68):
A laser system having multiple output fibers, the system comprising:\n a beam emitter for emission of a laser beam; a fiber bundle comprising a plurality of optical fibers, each of the optical fibers having (i) an input end for receiving the laser beam, and (ii) opposite the input end, an output end for delivery of the received laser beam to a workpiece; disposed optically downstream of the beam emitter and optically upstream of the fiber bundle, a reflector for receiving the laser beam and reflecting the laser beam toward the fiber bundle; disposed optically downstream of the reflector and optically upstream of the fiber bundle, an optical element for receiving the laser beam from the reflector and coupling the laser beam into only one of the input ends of an optical fiber in the fiber bundle; and a controller for causing and controlling relative motion between the input ends of the optical fibers and at least one of the reflector or the optical element to thereby determine at least one of (i) the optical fiber of the fiber bundle into which the laser beam is coupled or (ii) a location at which the laser beam is directed on an end face of a selected fiber, whereby at least one of a beam shape or a beam parameter product is determined at least in part by the optical fiber into which the laser beam is coupled and/or by the location at which the laser beam is directed on the end face of the selected fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56818
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15807795', '15879500', '15479745', '12474210', '15151881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8410150604157015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5579143974649501
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8127049941206264
- Mean Citation Score: 343.281358
- Max Citation Score: 436.92892
- Similarity Product: 394.4234738947631

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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