PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16142513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "024000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a compact device for wavelength-division multiplexing applications. In particular, disclosed is a device that includes a housing and a core at least partially positioned within the housing. The core includes a first single fiber stub, a second single fiber stub, and at least one functional layer positioned between a first fiber of the first single fiber stub and a second fiber of the second single fiber stub. The at least one functional layer is configured to: (i) permit routing of a transmission signal of a multiplexed signal along an optical path from the first fiber stub to the second fiber stub, and (ii) prevent routing of a non-transmission signal of the multiplexed signal along the optical path from the first fiber stub to the second fiber stub. A distance between a first ferrule of the first fiber stub and a second ferrule of the second fiber stub is less than about 0.05 mm.

Claim (Index 18):
A device for multiplexing, comprising:\n a first ferrule having a first optical fiber configured for optical communication of a multiplexed signal comprising a transmission signal and a non-transmission signal; a second ferrule having a second optical fiber configured for optical communication of the transmission signal; and at least one functional layer positioned between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber, the at least one functional layer configured to: (i) permit routing of the transmission signal of the multiplexed signal along an optical path from the first optical fiber to the second optical fiber, and (ii) prevent routing of the non-transmission signal of the multiplexed signal along the optical path from the first optical fiber to the second optical fiber; wherein a distance between the first ferrule and the second ferrule is less than about 1 micron.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68254
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11551760', '15889810', '11859229', '10836761', '15537259']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8054615261147703
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803496695663333
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7729503404599266
- Mean Citation Score: 181.112046
- Max Citation Score: 185.17268
- Similarity Product: 131.4807994304228

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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