PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "128000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for improved diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of corneal pathologies use enhanced mapping of the cornea or corneal regions, to develop three-dimensional mapping of corneal thickness, while retaining particular corneal micro-layer thickness data. Anterior and posterior surface identifications, along with surface apex determinations, are used for registration of segmentation of these micro-layers. 3D heat maps and bull's-eye maps are generated from resulting thickness date. The maps provided enhanced evaluation and diagnosis of a corneal pathologies, such as keratoconus, pellucid marginal degeneration, post-refractive surgery ectasia, keratoglobus, corneal transplant rejection and corneal transplant failed grafts, Fuchs dystrophy, corneal limbal stem cell deficiency, dry eye syndrome, and post-corneal collagen crosslinking evaluation.

Claim (Index 21):
A system for evaluating a diagnosable condition of an eye, the system comprising:\n one or more processors; a computer-readable memory storing non-transient instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the system to: segment, using an image processor, a plurality of high-resolution images of a cornea of the eye, to identify one or more of the plurality of biologically-defined micro-layers of the cornea, the plurality of high-resolution images comprising a plurality of images for a plurality of biologically-defined micro-layers of the cornea; determine thickness data for each of the identified one or more of the plurality of biologically-defined micro-layers, from the segmentation of the plurality of high-resolution images; develop, from the thickness data for each of the identified one or more of the plurality of biologically-defined micro-layers, a thickness map, the thickness map identifying differences in corneal thickness across the identified biologically-defined micro-layer, wherein the thickness map is correlated to a diagnosable condition of the cornea; and display the thickness map to provide an indication of the diagnosable condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5875
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14247903', '14481660', '12275518', '12897131', '13441733']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3610813635388356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5258584846136918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3775590756463213
- Mean Citation Score: 288.478588
- Max Citation Score: 355.7005
- Similarity Product: 299.262113595128

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

Dataset: test