PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "006000"]

Abstract:
For test/calibration of an electro-optic range-finding device, one or more fiber bundles each are selected to have a length corresponding to predetermined time-of-flight for light pulses. An input end is positioned proximate to the laser aperture of the range-finding device to receive a portion of light emitted through the laser aperture, and the output end is positioned to emit light from the respective fiber bundle through the detector aperture of the range-finding device. A fiber attenuator is connected along each fiber of the one or more fiber bundles to attenuate an amplitude of light propagating through the respective fiber by an amount corresponding to a target of known reflectance and distance. The one or more fiber bundles are each coiled to reduce a linear distance over which the one or more fiber bundles extend. The one or more fiber bundles may each comprise a plurality of fibers.

Claim (Index 20):
A system comprising the apparatus according to  claim 18 , wherein the system further comprises:\n an electro-optic range-finding device having a laser aperture and a detector aperture, wherein an input end of each of the first and second fiber bundles is positioned proximate to the laser aperture to receive a portion of light emitted through the laser aperture, and wherein an output end of each of the first and second fiber bundles is positioned proximate to the detector aperture to emit light from the respective fiber bundle through the detector aperture, wherein the electro-optic range-finding device further comprises:\n a light transmitter assembly configured to emit the light pulses through the laser aperture; \n a light receiver assembly configured to receive light through the detector aperture; and \n a processor configured to calibrate the electro-optic range-finding device based on light received through the detector aperture from the first and second fiber bundles based on light emitted through the laser aperture into the first and second fiber bundles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16901
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15851686', '10836022', '15841340', '15189580', '11320675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7012851937397839
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764372491557959
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6788003992813851
- Mean Citation Score: 186.72782
- Max Citation Score: 200.2699
- Similarity Product: 153.4150938680947

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

Dataset: test