PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
The glass-based ferrules include a glass substrate and two spaced-apart guide tubes, which can also be made of glass. The guide tubes include bores sized to receive guide pins from another ferrule. The ferrule can be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a waveguide connector that includes a planar lightwave circuit that supports multiple waveguides. The ferrule can also be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a fiber connector that includes a support substrate and an array of optical fibers supported thereby. The waveguide connector and fiber connector when mated form an integrated photonic device. Methods of forming the ferrule components, the ferrules and the optical interconnection devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 46):
The fiber connector according to  claim 35 , further comprising:\n a spring-retaining member having a front end and a back end and disposed on the first surface of the fiber support substrate adjacent the back end of the glass substrate of the fiber connector ferrule, with the back end including at least a first spring-retaining feature; a spring base member having a front end and a back end and disposed with its front end adjacent the back end of the spring-retaining member and the back end of the fiber support substrate, with the front end of the spring base member including at least one second spring-retaining feature that confronts the at least one first spring-retaining feature; at least one spring operably supported by the at least one first and at least one second spring-retaining features; and a connector housing that encloses the fiber connector ferrule, the spring-retaining member and the spring base member, with the spring base member secured to the connector housing so that the at least one spring provides an axial force against the back end of the spring-retaining member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08065
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15884622', '15797355', '14959956', '13871571', '15420549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8230533223030495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5155517117327111
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7923031612460157
- Mean Citation Score: 262.493478
- Max Citation Score: 281.13303
- Similarity Product: 162.45658776362836

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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