PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030477
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "038000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to an advance in the delivery of laser beams to internal surgical sites using optical fibers with a novel distal tip design made using a fusion assembly procedure suitable for directing laser beams out of the side of an optical fiber. This side-fire fiber delivery tip assembly is fabricated by fusing a transparent tube onto the distal ends of a laser beam delivery fiber and an associated coaxial stub fiber that have beveled and parallel end faces that meet inside of the transparent tube. The result is a rugged fiber delivery tip assembly that is almost entirely solid, except for a very narrow gap between the beveled end surfaces of the two fibers. A loose fitting transparent capsule is placed over this fiber tip to contain a transparent perfluorocarbon lubricating oil or a perfluorocarbon heat-transfer agent that serves as a cooling agent for the fiber tip assembly.

Claim (Index 6):
The side-fire fiber optical tip assembly as described in  claim 2  in which the said narrow gap as measured in the axial direction between the two beveled surfaces on the said laser beam delivery fiber and the said short stub fiber is between 5 microns and 1 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76136
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15338420', '15382611', '14020289', '14578739', '14958057']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.835438760443564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5937635223443789
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8112712366336455
- Mean Citation Score: 308.0308720000001
- Max Citation Score: 507.79843
- Similarity Product: 472.1567177508682

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