PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["345", "008000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary light control devices and methods provide a regional variation of visual information and sampling (“V-VIS”) of an ocular field of view that improves or stabilizes vision, ameliorates a visual symptom, reduces the rate of vision loss, or reduces the progression of an ophthalmic or neurologic condition, disease, injury or disorder. The V-VIS devices and methods may optically move, at a sampling rate between 50 hertz and 50 kilohertz, one or more apertures anterior to a retina between one or more positions anterior to the retina that are non-coaxial with a center of a pupil and a position anterior to the retina that is coaxial with the center of the pupil. Certain of these V-VIS devices and methods may be combined with augmented or virtual reality, vision measurement, vision monitoring, or other therapies including, but not limited to, pharmacological, gene, retinal replacement and stem cell therapies.

Claim (Index 38):
A method, comprising:\n generating, using a light control device, a moving aperture effect anterior to a retina of an eye, the generating comprising producing optically, in accordance with a temporal sequence, one or more areas within an ocular field of view of the eye that are characterized by a reduced transparency, the one or more areas characterized by the reduced transparency surrounding and defining one or more apertures that include corresponding transparent areas, and the one or more apertures appearing at spatially separated or overlapping positions within the ocular field of view in accordance with the temporal sequence; and based on the generated moving aperture effect, and using the light control device, sampling and delivering to the retina environmental light from the ocular field of view at a sampling rate between 50 hertz and 50 kilohertz; wherein delivering of the environmental light to the retina comprises delivering the environmental light from the ocular field of view through the at least one generated aperture onto a retinal area with at least one of a diameter or greatest diameter ranging from 0.1 mm to 4 mm; and wherein delivering of the environmental light to the retina comprises delivering the environmental light from the ocular field of view through the at least one generated aperture with the moving aperture effect within at least one of a retinal diameter or greatest retinal diameter ranging from 0.2 mm to 10 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89773
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15903923', '15813645', '13594416', '15332132', '15871861']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6409943522332148
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5717097344196765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6340658904518609
- Mean Citation Score: 246.75359200000003
- Max Citation Score: 461.55872
- Similarity Product: 425.7269613301467

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

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