PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "080000"]

Abstract:
A method of making a fiber optic connector sub-assembly involves: initially disposing a bonding agent in a ferrule bore of a ferrule; heating at least a portion of the ferrule above a melting temperature of the bonding agent so that some of the bonding agent melts; and solidifying the bonding agent that has melted to form the fiber optic connector sub-assembly, all without an optical fiber being disposed within the ferrule bore.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of making a fiber optic connector sub-assembly that includes a ferrule having a front end, a rear end, and a ferrule bore extending between the front and rear ends along a longitudinal axis, wherein the ferrule bore includes a first section extending inwardly from the rear end of the ferrule and having a first width, a second section extending inwardly from the front end of the ferrule and having a second width that is less than the first width, and a transition section located between the first section and the second section, the method comprising:\n (a) initially disposing the bonding agent in at least the transition section of the ferrule bore without there being any optical fiber present in the ferrule bore; (b) heating at least a portion of the ferrule above a melting temperature of the bonding agent initially disposed in the ferrule bore so that some of the bonding agent melts; and (c) solidifying the bonding agent that has melted in step (b) to form the fiber optic connector sub-assembly without there being any optical fiber present in the ferrule bore; wherein:\n the bonding agent has first and second ends along the longitudinal axis that have been melted and solidified following steps (b) and (c); and \n a portion of the bonding agent initially disposed in the ferrule bore in step (a) remains below the melting temperature of the bonding agent during steps (b) and (c) so as to not melt and solidify during steps (b) and (c).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67391
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15900876', '14920023', '14886905', '15686490', '14687237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8491149659279632
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.563292095087055
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8205326788438724
- Mean Citation Score: 377.916986
- Max Citation Score: 440.33426
- Similarity Product: 425.9019701079012

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

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