PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393575
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "068000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes a fiber optic cable with a proximal end and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The endoscope apparatus also includes a light source optically coupled to the proximal end of the fiber optic cable to emit visible light and excitation light into the fiber optic cable for output from the distal end. The light source is configured to emit both the visible light and the excitation light simultaneously, and a wavelength of the excitation light is outside a wavelength spectrum of the visible light. An image sensor is configured to receive a reflection of the visible light as reflected visible light.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of medical imaging comprising:\n simultaneously emitting visible light and excitation light from a distal end of a fiber optic cable of an endoscope, wherein a wavelength of the excitation light is outside a wavelength spectrum of the visible light; receiving reflected visible light including the visible light with an image sensor; receiving fluorescence light, emitted from a plurality of dye molecules, with the image sensor, wherein the fluorescence light is emitted in response to the plurality of dye molecules absorbing the excitation light, and wherein the fluorescence light is received by the image sensor contemporaneously with the reflected visible light, and wherein the reflected visible light and the fluorescence light form combined image data in the image sensor; separating visible image data from the combined image data, wherein the visible image data includes first color image data corresponding to first color photocharge collected in the image sensor, second color image data corresponding to second color photocharge collected in the image sensor, and third color image data corresponding to third color photocharge collected in the image sensor; and separating fluorescence image data from the combined image data, wherein the fluorescence image data corresponds to fluorescence photocharge collected in the image sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46667
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15411221', '11964330', '12955327', '10092033', '10767755']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.57242367474839
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092045185284182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5661017591263927
- Mean Citation Score: 203.022002
- Max Citation Score: 308.05838
- Similarity Product: 298.3082200168478

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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