PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "060000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic ferrule and a guide pin clamp allows for changing guide pins in the field. The guide pin clamp has a forward clamp portion, a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the biasing spring and a guide pin retaining plate. The forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion move relative to one another to also move guide pin retaining plate from a first position to a second position to allow for the removal or insertion of guide pins.

Claim (Index 19):
A pin clamp for use with a fiber optic connector, the fiber optic connector having at least one housing, a fiber optic ferrule disposed at least partially within the at least one housing of the fiber optic connector, the fiber optic ferrule having guide pin openings extending from a front face to a rear face of the fiber optic ferrule to receive a guide pin therein, a spring, and a spring push, the pin clamp comprising:\n a forward clamp portion to engage the rear face of the fiber optic ferrule, the forward clamp portion having two guide pin openings therethrough to receive a guide pin in each of the two guide pin openings; a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the spring for biasing the fiber optic ferrule in the fiber optic connector and two guide pin receptacles to receive at least a portion of one of the guide pins; and at least one guide pin retaining plate at least partially disposed between the forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion, the forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion movable relative to one another between a first position and a second position and the guide pin retaining plate configured to engage a portion of each of the guide pins in the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93182
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15383356', '15247839', '15810292', '10675352', '10747581']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8580554981910361
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6012633191964438
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8323762802915768
- Mean Citation Score: 430.76749800000016
- Max Citation Score: 518.98505
- Similarity Product: 516.3101630426794

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

Dataset: test