PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16236685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
A pin exchanger has protrusions from gripping elements that engage fiber optic guide pins. Guide beams on the pin exchanger provide a reference for aligning the guide pins and the pin exchanger with a fiber optic connector and a fiber optic ferrule. An adapter is also provided that has openings to receive the guide beams. The adapter is preferably installed in a field tool and together they engage the fiber optic connector, align the pin exchanger and move the guide pin holder to allow guide pins to be inserted or removed.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of securely holding at least one guide pin from a fiber optic connector in a pin exchanging tool, the pin exchanging tool including two parallel gripping elements and guide beams attached to each of the gripping elements, the fiber optic connector having a connector housing and being inserted into an adapter, the method comprising the steps of:\n inserting the pin exchanging tool into the adapter, wherein the at least one guide pin is positioned between two aligned protrusions of the pin exchanging tool extending respectively from and in between each of the two parallel gripping elements; and causing the at least one guide pin to be released from a pin keeper holding the at least one guide pin in the fiber-optic connector to securely hold the at least one guide pin within the pin exchanging tool between the two aligned protrusions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15801490', '14880794', '10747581', '15383356', '14860130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8301816597758752
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5449131804357008
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8016548118418578
- Mean Citation Score: 243.904746
- Max Citation Score: 400.14005
- Similarity Product: 344.8618562134862

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