PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773937
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
An optical fiber alignment mechanism ( 100 ) operates to align optical fibers ( 102 ). The mechanism can include a key element ( 120, 130 ) arranged on the cladding ( 112 ) of an optical fiber ( 102 ). The key element ( 120, 130 ) can engage with a corresponding element of another optical fiber ( 102 ) to align the cores ( 108 ) of the mating optical fibers. The key element ( 120 ) of an optical fiber ( 102 ) can also be inserted into a corresponding keyway ( 226 ) of a fiber alignment hole ( 222 ) of a ferrule ( 200 ) such that the optical fiber ( 102 ) is oriented properly within the ferrule ( 200 ).

Claim (Index 1):
An optical fiber comprising:\n a first end and a second end, the optical fiber extending along a central longitudinal axis between the first and second end; one or more cores for transmitting optical signals between the first end and the second end, each of the cores having an end surface at the first end, the end surface configured to face an end of a corresponding core of another optical fiber; a cladding positioned around a circumference of the cores; and a key element arranged on the cladding and configured to engage with a corresponding element to align the cores with corresponding cores of the another optical fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5283
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463639', '14959956', '12353589', '15033659', '13468495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8186675446763606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804448486761507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7848452750763396
- Mean Citation Score: 222.402394
- Max Citation Score: 227.83765
- Similarity Product: 187.68008705730736

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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