PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
An optical ferrule adapted to receive and transmit light is described. The optical ferrule includes first and second alignment features for mating with corresponding alignment features of a mating optical ferrule. One of the first and second alignment features may be compressible, expandable or compliant. An optical ferrule having first and second alignment features is described, wherein the ferrule is adapted such that the mating/unmating to/from a corresponding ferrule can be effected along two orthogonal dimensions of the ferrule. Additionally an optical ferrule having first and second alignment features is described, wherein the first and second alignment features are located at substantially different first and second locations/contact regions along the ferrule mating direction; the contact regions may also be offset along the thickness direction of the ferrule.

Claim (Index 27):
The optical ferrule of  claim 26 , wherein the second alignment feature comprises a first compliant feature and a second compliant feature, and wherein the first compliant feature comprises a first flexible arm having a first fixed end attached to a first side of the expandable opening and an opposite first free end, and the second compliant feature comprises a second flexible arm having a second fixed end attached to a second side of the expandable opening, opposite the first side, and an opposite second free end, such that when the expandable opening is in the unexpanded state, the first and second free ends are separated by a first distance and when the expandable opening is in the expanded state, the first and second free ends are separated by a second distance greater than the first distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15763132', '11066986', '15006649', '14161792', '11907064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8129225527257066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5146669462338413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7830969920765201
- Mean Citation Score: 244.074044
- Max Citation Score: 251.5205
- Similarity Product: 158.79208080101014

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