PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16295677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["601", "018000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a phototherapy apparatus, in which the therapeutic light is delivered through or in proximity to one or more massage components. The massage component provides mechanical massage to the subject biological tissue and modifies the properties of the subject tissue in thickness, density, etc. to facilitate the absorption of the therapeutic light and enhance the effect of the phototherapy procedure.

Claim (Index 28):
A method comprising:\n applying a phototherapy apparatus to a tissue surface, wherein the phototherapy apparatus comprises:\n a hand piece; \n a light source coupled to the hand piece, the light source configured to emit light; \n a ball rotatably coupled to the hand piece and configured to transmit the light; \n an optical fiber configured to receive the light emitted from the light source and to carry the light; and \n means positioned to receive the light transmitted by the optical fiber and configured to transmit the light onto an outer surface of the ball, \n wherein the applying the phototherapy apparatus to the tissue surface delivers therapeutic light and mechanical massage to the tissue surface in a concerted manner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65854
- Patent Class: 601.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14635160', '12104012', '15174532', '14537634', '15590770']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6831031631441049
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113818638616895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6659310332158634
- Mean Citation Score: 301.2096640000001
- Max Citation Score: 351.11584
- Similarity Product: 319.0292002498245

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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