PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027946
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
A method and device for interconnecting optical components, such as optical fibers and optical circuits, in a flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective manner. Two or more optical components are interconnected by a flexible optical circuit substrate bearing one or more embedded optical fibers with a lens at each end of each fiber. The flexible optical circuit may be incorporated into a housing bearing apertures for receiving the optical connectors of the optical components that are to be interconnected with the device. The lensed ends of the fibers embedded in the flexible optical circuit are positioned adjacent to the apertures for optically connecting to the fibers within the connectors installed in the apertures without conventional mating connectors disposed inside the housing.

Claim (Index 29):
An optical cassette comprising:\n a cassette housing defining an interior and an exterior; a first optical connector coupled to the cassette housing, the first optical connector terminating a cable carrying a plurality of optical fibers that extend into the interior of the cassette housing; a flexible optical circuit defined by a flexible substrate positioned within the interior of the cassette housing, the flexible substrate physically supporting the plurality of optical fibers extending into the interior of the cassette housing from the first optical connector to a plurality of optical adapters located on the cassette housing, wherein each optical adapter is configured to mate a second optical connector coming from the exterior of the cassette housing with a third optical connector from the interior of the cassette housing, the third optical connector having a different configuration than the second optical connector, wherein each third optical connector terminates one of the fibers supported by the flexible substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01587
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15236054', '13230094', '13230117', '14987021', '15024287']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8547081935715449
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5346687878517978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8227042529995702
- Mean Citation Score: 333.561694
- Max Citation Score: 429.24908
- Similarity Product: 385.8367117937422

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