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 7):
The optical fiber of  claim 6 , wherein the female key element of the second optical fiber includes:\n a fiber receiving portion configured to receive the first end of the optical fiber; and a key recess portion configured to receive the male key element of the optical fiber as the optical fiber is inserted into the fiber receiving portion, the key recess portion arranged to align the cores of the optical fiber with the corresponding cores of the second optical fibers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5283
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463639', '14959956', '12353589', '15033659', '13468495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8341266332544869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4944203035829196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8001560002873301
- Mean Citation Score: 222.402394
- Max Citation Score: 227.83765
- Similarity Product: 163.890337468797

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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