PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867938
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "016000"]

Abstract:
A multimode launch system to be connected to an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) for use in performing at least one OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array Device Under Test (DUT), the multimode launch system comprising: an optical switch being connectable to the OTDR during use; a launch array device having an end being connectable to the optical switch and another end being connectable to the multi-fiber array DUT during use, the launch array device having a plurality of multimode launch optical fibers each having at least one first guidance parameter being smaller than a corresponding one of at least one second guidance parameter of at least one multimode optical fiber of the optical switch; and a multi-fiber mode conditioner along the launch array device for inducing a preferential attenuation of higher-order optical modes of test light propagated into the multi-fiber array DUT during use.

Claim (Index 1):
A multimode launch system to be connected to an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) for use in performing at least one OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array Device Under Test (DUT), the multimode launch system comprising:\n an optical switch having an input multimode optical fiber and a plurality of output multimode optical fibers, the optical switch being configured to receive test light from the OTDR into the input multimode optical fiber and to selectively transmit the received test light into one of the plurality of output multimode optical fibers during use; a launch array device having an end being connectable to the plurality of output multimode optical fibers of the optical switch and another end being connectable to the multi-fiber array DUT during use, the launch array device having a plurality of multimode launch optical fibers each having at least one first guidance parameter being smaller than a corresponding one of at least one second guidance parameter of at least one of the input multimode optical fiber and the plurality of output multimode optical fibers of the optical switch; and a multi-fiber mode conditioner along the launch array device for inducing a preferential attenuation of higher-order optical modes of test light propagated into the multi-fiber array DUT during use.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15263036', '15220715', '12570853', '11461661', '14820864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6913198619514294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6919451965195288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6913823954082393
- Mean Citation Score: 363.196794
- Max Citation Score: 674.4999
- Similarity Product: 669.0449115840734

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

Dataset: test