PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16119875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "093000"]

Abstract:
A ferrule-to-lens latch mechanism includes a cover movable with respect to a housing of an optical assembly between an open position in which a cavity defined by the housing is visible and a closed position in which the cavity is covered by the cover. A lens is positioned in the cavity and has one or more guide pins which are visible when the cover is in the open position prior to mating a ferrule to the lens. A spring clip coupled to the housing and positioned in the cavity is configured to allow insertion and removal of the ferrule from the cavity when the cover is in the open position and may bias the ferrule against the lens when the ferrule is mated to the lens. When the ferrule is mated to the lens, the cover may cooperate with the spring clip to inhibit removal of the ferrule.

Claim (Index 13):
The optoelectronic system of  claim 12 , wherein the spring clip is sized and shaped to receive the ferrule through a flexible bottleneck opening at a bottleneck portion of the spring clip and into a receptacle portion of the spring clip, the bottleneck portion of the spring clip configured to flex into and de-flex out of a flex groove defined by the housing in response to the ferrule passing through the flexible bottleneck opening and in response to the ferrule exiting the flexible bottleneck opening, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11646133', '11716415', '11076684', '12858078', '14741289']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8285590774043192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5000531990230702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7957084895661943
- Mean Citation Score: 202.700848
- Max Citation Score: 207.1674
- Similarity Product: 128.33742211604118

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

Dataset: test