PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
The glass-based ferrules include a glass substrate and two spaced-apart guide tubes, which can also be made of glass. The guide tubes include bores sized to receive guide pins from another ferrule. The ferrule can be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a waveguide connector that includes a planar lightwave circuit that supports multiple waveguides. The ferrule can also be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a fiber connector that includes a support substrate and an array of optical fibers supported thereby. The waveguide connector and fiber connector when mated form an integrated photonic device. Methods of forming the ferrule components, the ferrules and the optical interconnection devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 54):
An attachment fixture for receiving and locking to a fiber connector having a housing with sides that respectively include a first locking feature:\n a mounting section comprising first and second spaced apart mounting pads that reside in a first plane; first and second spaced apart guide arms that respectively outwardly extend from the first and second mounting pads and that respectively reside in second planes transverse to the first plane to define a receiving region between the first and second guide arms, wherein each guide arm has a top side, a bottom side, a back end and a second locking feature; a support beam that connects the first and second guide arms at the back end at either the top sides or the bottom sides of the guide arms; and wherein the receiving region is sized to receive the housing of the fiber connector so that the second locking feature of the guide arms operably engages the first locking feature of the fiber connector housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08065
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15884622', '15797355', '14959956', '13871571', '15420549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8237369935235639
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092097389193424
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7922842680631418
- Mean Citation Score: 262.493478
- Max Citation Score: 281.13303
- Similarity Product: 187.7529898216045

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