PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["606", "015000"]

Abstract:
A laser fiber has a distal end having a laser fiber face. A tip addition is attached to or formed onto the fiber face. The material of the tip addition one of fragments or melts when laser energy from a suitable laser device is passed through the laser fiber and through the tip addition.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of treating human tissue with a laser, comprising:\n providing a laser fiber; attaching a tip addition to the distal end of the laser fiber, the tip addition being one of a frangible or meltable upon the application of laser energy through the laser fiber and wherein the tip addition is formed in a curved shaped surface; inserting the laser fiber into an endoscope tube; extending the laser fiber out of the endoscope tube; applying laser energy through the laser fiber to impinge on the tip addition and cause the tip addition to one of fragment and melt; and providing laser treatment to the human tissue.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14541038', '15275320', '15109274', '15675331', '12895488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7514583816864011
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4422472871040614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7205372722281672
- Mean Citation Score: 140.81481000000005
- Max Citation Score: 211.72987
- Similarity Product: 202.0386553330136

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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