PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "081000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the disclosure are drawn to methods for producing a fused connector termination. An exemplary method may include setting a specification requirement to be met by the fused connector termination and applying an amount of heat to a proximal region of an unfused connector termination. The proximal region of the unfused connector termination may include an inner optical fiber coaxially positioned within an outer ferrule, and applying the amount of heat may at least partially fuse the optical fiber to the outer ferrule to form an at least partially fused connector termination. The method may also include imaging the proximal region of the at least partially fused connector termination and determining, based on the imaging, whether the proximal region of the at least partially fused connector termination meets the specification.

Claim (Index 30):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein determining whether the connector termination meets a pre-determined specification includes determining whether at least one of a diameter, a depth, a curvature, or a surface smoothness of a dish formed on a proximal face of the connector termination meets the specification based on one or more images of the proximal face captured along a z-axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46429
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670159', '14809871', '14617041', '11338429', '12003249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8355486799624674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5606703473294227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.808060846699163
- Mean Citation Score: 254.80063200000004
- Max Citation Score: 451.44595
- Similarity Product: 336.2015732561469

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

Dataset: test