PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
Methods of forming a ferrule are disclosed where the ferrule includes an inner member and an outer member. An optical fiber is secured in an axial bore of the inner member, and then offset of a core of the optical fiber from a geometric center of the inner member is determined. The outer member is then formed over the inner member to “correct” for this offset so that the core of the optical fiber ends up closer to the geometric center of the resulting ferrule. Related ferrules and cable assemblies including the same are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the optical fiber includes a front end face that resides substantially at a front end of the ferrule; the outer member comprises a polymer material and the inner member comprises a ceramic material; and forming the outer member comprises:\n initially forming the outer member over the inner member define an initially-formed ferrule; \n positioning the initially-formed ferrule within a mold; \n heating the outer member so that at least some of the polymer material becomes flowable; \n moving the inner member within the outer member while the at least some of the polymer material is flowable, wherein said moving positions the core of the optical fiber closer to the ferrule geometric center; and \n cooling the outer member actively or passively after moving the inner member to complete the formation of the ferrule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90741
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15602468', '15455414', '15441512', '16143645', '14571557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8478536477904848
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5275520367983595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8158234866912724
- Mean Citation Score: 293.693082
- Max Citation Score: 345.38397000000015
- Similarity Product: 219.10257717735536

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

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