PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "072000"]

Abstract:
A pair of optical ferrules is disclosed. Each of a first ferrule and a second ferrule of the pair may include at least one protrusion and at least one recess. Each of the protrusions or recesses may have at least one channel for holding an optical fiber. Upon mating the two ferrules, the protrusion of the first ferrule is configured to be inserted into the recess of the second ferrule and the protrusion of the second ferrule is configured to be inserted into the recess of the first ferrule such that the optical fibers held in each protrusion are optically aligned to be connected face to face with the optical fibers held in the corresponding recess of the other ferrule.

Claim (Index 6):
The mated pair of optical ferrules according to  claim 2 , wherein the surface of the at least second protrusion is parallel to the surface of the at least second recess.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31481
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12855261', '10839650', '15774443', '15680204', '15443987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8337267865333416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953541080726866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7998895186872761
- Mean Citation Score: 228.874832
- Max Citation Score: 247.62332
- Similarity Product: 186.7922325134444

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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