PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["606", "016000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a surgical handpiece for providing an electromagnetic cutting blade. The handpiece, comprises a body portion having an input end and an output end, a plurality of optical fibers for receiving laser energy having a wavelength within a predetermined wavelength range, wherein the optical fibers are received in the body portion at the input end and extend to the output end, and an optical fiber transition region within the body portion for arranging the plurality of optical fibers into a predetermine cutting shape at the output end, wherein laser energy transmitted from the arranged optical fibers at the output end interact with water molecules near the surgical target to generate micro-explosions that result in a cutting effect.

Claim (Index 29):
A surgical handpiece for providing an electromagnetic cutting blade, comprising:\n a body portion having an input end and an output end; a plurality of optical fibers configured and arranged for receiving laser energy having a wavelength within a predetermined wavelength range, wherein the optical fibers are received in the body portion at the input end and extend to the output end, the output end being substantially free of obstructions to the laser energy in the optical fibers; and an optical fiber transition region within the body portion for arranging the plurality of optical fibers into a predetermined cutting shape at the output end; a plurality of water outlets between and/or around the plurality of optical fibers, the plurality of water outlets configured to inject fluid particles into an interaction zone; and wherein the laser energy transmitted from the arranged optical fibers at the output end is configured to enter the interaction zone proximate a surgical target zone and interact with fluid particles in the interaction zone and with water molecules within the surgical target to generate a cutting effect to the surgical target, the optical fibers being, at a location within the body portion, grouped together in a bundle, and the optical fibers being, at the output end, strung out along a line that follows the predetermined cutting shape, wherein the spacing and arrangement of the optical fibers at the output end is different from the spacing and arrangement of the optical fibers at the input end, and the cutting effect producing, on the surgical target, a line of cutting that matches the predetermined cutting shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01613
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13633967', '11904677', '11186619', '11033031', '11904900']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7062082752811604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4890848928046158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6844959370335059
- Mean Citation Score: 180.450416
- Max Citation Score: 307.6052200000001
- Similarity Product: 305.518896167189

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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