PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16194325
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector holding two or more LC-type optical ferrules is provided. The optical connector includes an outer body, an inner front body accommodating the two or more LC-type optical ferrules, ferrule springs for urging the optical ferrules towards a mating receptacle, and a back body for supporting the ferrule springs. The outer body and the inner front body are configured such that four LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver footprint or eight LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) transceiver footprint. A mating receptacle (transceiver or adapter) includes internal alignment slots configured to accept a corresponding alignment key on connector outer housing to ensure alignment and orientation for maximum signal transfer between opposing ferrule end faces.

Claim (Index 6):
An adapter holding two or more LC-type optical connectors comprising:\n an outer housing with a longitudinally bore extending from a first port opening to an opposing, second port opening; a plural of opposing alignment slots, and wherein the first alignment slot has a width to receive a first connector alignment key but no less than width \u201cW1\u201d and the second alignment slot has a width to receive a second connector alignment key but no less than has a width \u201cW2\u201d, the improvement comprising configuring the adapter internal alignment slots and connector alignment keys such that four LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) footprint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98592
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16035691', '16035695', '16176661', '15670161', '16016577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8415807867252151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5503770792265015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8124604159753438
- Mean Citation Score: 309.221482
- Max Citation Score: 412.47052
- Similarity Product: 314.09703892812735

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

Dataset: test