PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952310
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "100000"]

Abstract:
A flat drop cable has notches or other structures for enhancing the stripability of the jacket from a core of the flat drop cable. The notches can have an angled configuration with surfaces that converge as the notches extend into the jacket. Inner edges, or rounded valleys, at the bottoms of the notches can be positioned along a tear path that intersects the core of the flat drop cable at an angle relative to a major axis of the flat drop cable. For example, the notches can be offset from a minor axis of the flat drop cable a sufficient distance such that the notches are positioned outside a central boundary region that extends tangent to sides of the core and parallel to a minor axis of the flat drop cable. The shoulders of the notches, where the notches transition to an outer jacket wall, may also include a radius of curvature.

Claim (Index 1):
A fiber optic cable having a central longitudinal axis, the fiber optic cable comprising:\n a jacket having a length that extends along the central longitudinal axis of the fiber optic cable, the jacket defining a transverse cross-sectional profile having a thickness and a width, the thickness being smaller than the width, the transverse cross-sectional profile of the jacket defining a major axis that extends across the width of the jacket and a minor axis that extends across the thickness of the jacket, the major and minor axes being perpendicular to one another and also being perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the fiber optic cable, and the major axis and the minor axis intersecting each other at the central longitudinal axis; a core positioned within the jacket that extends along the central longitudinal axis, the core including at least one optical fiber; and an open-sided notch formed in the jacket that extends along the length of the jacket, the open-sided notch being positioned at a location offset from the minor axis, wherein the open-sided notch includes an inner portion closest to the core and the inner portion is formed as a rounded valley.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1039
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15113713', '13555659', '13246225', '13652614', '12607748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8355970396692659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5374113149506529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8057784671974046
- Mean Citation Score: 267.94869400000005
- Max Citation Score: 381.7905
- Similarity Product: 370.0182961292267

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

Dataset: test