PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906728
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "001000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for perturbing a laser beam propagating within a first length of fiber to adjust one or more beam characteristics of the laser beam in the first length of fiber or a second length of fiber or a combination thereof, coupling the perturbed laser beam into a second length of fiber and maintaining at least a portion of one or more adjusted beam characteristics within a second length of fiber having.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of cutting a material using a laser, the method comprising:\n providing a laser beam propagating within a first length of fiber to adjust one or more beam characteristics of the laser beam in the first length of fiber or a second length of fiber or a combination thereof; coupling the provided laser beam into the second length of fiber; maintaining at least a portion of one or more adjusted beam characteristics within the second length of fiber having at least one confinement region; directing the provided laser beam from the second length of fiber to a target location on the material to pierce a depth of the material, wherein the provided laser beam has a first characteristic spot size, divergence, spatial profile, divergence profile, or any combination thereof at the target location during piercing; determining that the provided laser beam has reached a predetermined depth of the material at the target location; and perturbing the provided laser beam to change the first characteristic spot size, divergence, spatial profile, divergence profile, or combinations thereof to a second characteristic spot size, divergence, spatial profile, divergence profile, or any combination thereof based on the determining to cut the material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.025
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15607411', '15607399', '15607410', '15882292', '15882870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8234766036993436
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5402783548934125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7951567788187505
- Mean Citation Score: 385.6417379999999
- Max Citation Score: 400.26892
- Similarity Product: 330.6533479689288

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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