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 17):
The system of  claim 9 , wherein the first electromechanical transducer corresponds to a buckling piezo having a distal buckling end and a proximal buckling end, wherein the distal buckling end is positioned between the proximal tube end and the proximal buckling end, wherein the optical fiber and the distal buckling end are mechanically coupled by a buckling distal joint, and wherein movement of the buckling distal joint along a longitudinal fiber axis causes buckling of the optical fiber between the buckling distal joint and the whirling distal joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 55.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13776700', '15107894', '11187744', '13314478', '11561303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7985969729869797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925785238487433
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7679951280731562
- Mean Citation Score: 149.51441799999995
- Max Citation Score: 154.4656
- Similarity Product: 95.08575336065292

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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