PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16352246
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["600", "162000"]

Abstract:
This application presents to an endoscope having a compact distal tip, and to a method for constructing same. In some embodiments one or more optical and sensing elements are mounted directly on an internal surface of a lumen within an external housing, which housing comprises an outer wall of the endoscope tip. Space saved by eliminating intervening containing elements can be used to enhance endoscope performance and/or reduce endoscope size.

Claim (Index 9):
The endoscope tip of  claim 1 , further comprising a shaped portion in said housing, said shaped portion configured to conform to an optical sensor array such that an optical axis of the optical sensor array is aligned with an optical axis of said first component to reduce calibration to one axis and further wherein said shaped portion is formed as a flat shelf surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.31579
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12230745', '12769292', '14072861', '13921994', '11089520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4157915999274272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5271570524995185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4269281451846364
- Mean Citation Score: 224.32221400000003
- Max Citation Score: 361.05212
- Similarity Product: 330.6056626754499

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test