PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["372", "050120"]

Abstract:
A number of beams that can be coupled into an optical fiber can be increased using emitted beams having greater divergence, thus providing increased beam power. Alternatively, with a fixed number of emitters, total optical power can be maintained with fewer beams in an output beam with a smaller numerical aperture.

Claim (Index 24):
A method, comprising:\n selecting a step height along a common fast axis direction; based on the selected step height, selecting a common fast axis beam diameter and a common fast axis beam divergence; and shaping beams from each of a set of laser diodes spaced apart by the step height and having the common fast axis beam diameter and the common fast axis beam divergence along the common fast axis direction with respective fast axis collimators, a fast axis telescope, and an objective lens so as to produce a combined beam having a combined beam fast axis beam diameter and beam divergence corresponding to an output fiber core diameter and numerical aperture, and shaping beams from each of the set of laser diodes along a slow axis direction with respective slow axis collimators and the objective lens so that the combined beam has a combined beam slow axis beam diameter and beam divergence corresponding to the output fiber core diameter and numerical aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51351
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14641093', '14938199', '15435117', '14984602', '13313490']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278517772991132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5010092885132348
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7951675284205253
- Mean Citation Score: 273.828842
- Max Citation Score: 280.6866
- Similarity Product: 239.87229573980568

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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