PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939136
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, and systems comprising a fiber-coupled laser and time-varying beam characteristics. A laser may generate an optical beam that is launched into one or more lengths of fiber, at least one of which comprises a confinement region that is optically coupled to an output. A perturbation device may modulate, through action upon the one or more lengths of fiber, a beam characteristic over a time period during which the laser is energized. A controller may cause the perturbation device to act upon the one or more lengths of fiber to impart a time-averaged beam characteristic and/or to induce a continuous variation in one or more beam characteristics during system use. A process monitor may sense a metric external to the optical system, and a feedback signal from the process monitor may be coupled into the controller. Dynamic beam characteristics may be modulated based on the feedback signal.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical beam delivery system, comprising:\n an optical input to receive an optical beam; one or more lengths of fiber between the optical input and an optical output, wherein at least one of the lengths of fiber comprises a confinement region that is optically coupled to the output; a perturbation device to modify, through action upon the one or more lengths of fiber, one or more beam characteristics of the optical beam conveyed by the confinement region to the output; and a controller coupled to the perturbation device, wherein the controller is to control the perturbation device to vary the one or more beam characteristics over a period of time that the optical beam is received.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10526
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15924090', '15924096', '15607411', '15885563', '15906728']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7729419867881309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4892265907411741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7445704471834352
- Mean Citation Score: 320.77743
- Max Citation Score: 342.41913
- Similarity Product: 303.79951713839284

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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