PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944390
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "109000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are embodiments of fiber scanning systems and methods of scanning optical fibers. The disclosed systems and methods advantageously provide an improvement to the scanning range, the oscillation amplitude, and/or the maximum pointing angle for an optical fiber in a fiber scanning system by inducing a buckling of a portion of the optical fiber.

Claim (Index 18):
The system of  claim 17 , further comprising a support tube mechanically coupled to the whirling piezo tube and the buckling piezo, wherein the buckling piezo is positioned inside the support tube, wherein the support tube has a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the distal end of the support tube and the proximal tube end are mechanically coupled by a whirling proximal joint, and wherein the proximal end of the support tube and the proximal buckling end are mechanically coupled by a buckling proximal joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13776700', '15107894', '11187744', '13314478', '11561303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7832390784246123
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4659537518364492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.751510545765796
- Mean Citation Score: 149.51441799999995
- Max Citation Score: 154.4656
- Similarity Product: 117.37688627061844

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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