PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "102000"]

Abstract:
A flat drop cable has notches or other structures for enhancing the stripability of the jacket from the a core of the flat drop cable. The notches can have an angled configuration with surfaces that converge as the notch extends into the jacket. Inner edges of the notches can be positioned along a tear path that intersects the core of the flat drop cable. For example, the notches can be offset from a minor axis of the flat drop cable a sufficient distance such that the notches are positioned outside a central boundary region that extends tangent to sides of the core and parallel to the minor axis of the flat drop cable.

Claim (Index 2):
A fiber optic cable having a longitudinal axis, the fiber optic cable comprising:\n a jacket having a length extending along the longitudinal axis, the jacket has a transverse cross-sectional profile defining a major axis extending between opposite first and second sides of the cable and a minor axis extending between opposite first and second ends of the cable, the major axis being transverse to the minor axis, the jacket having a flat construction so that the major axis is at least twice as long as the minor axis; a core disposed within the jacket and extending along the longitudinal axis, the core including at least one optical fiber, the core being intersected by both the major and minor axes; first and second strength members disposed within the jacket and extending along the longitudinal axis, the first and second strength members being positioned at opposite sides of the core so that the major axis intersects both the first and second strength members and the core; a first open-sided notch defined by the jacket that extends along the length of the jacket at the first end of the jacket, the first open-sided notch being defined by respective first and second surfaces that converge at a first convergence point offset into the jacket from the first end of the jacket, the respective first surface extending from the first convergence point towards the first side of the jacket and the respective second surface extending from the first convergence point towards the second side of the jacket; and a second open-sided notch defined by the jacket that extends along the length of the jacket at the second end of the jacket, the second open-sided notch being defined by respective first and second surfaces that converge at a second convergence point offset into the jacket from the second end of the jacket, the respective first surface extending from the second convergence point towards the first side of the jacket and the respective second surface extending from the second convergence point towards the second side of the jacket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15113713', '15952310', '13111483', '13652614', '12607748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8085626609605405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5399385258950425
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7817002474539908
- Mean Citation Score: 296.463284
- Max Citation Score: 377.54694
- Similarity Product: 329.22961012953044

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

Dataset: test