PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023858
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "054000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for coupling fiber bundles. A plurality of fibers are secured within a channel of a fastener system to place the plurality of fibers in a packing configuration within the channel. The fastener system and the plurality of fibers secured by the fastener system are cut through to create a first fiber bundle and a second fiber bundle. The first fiber bundle is coupled with the second fiber bundle.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 18 , wherein coupling the first part and the second part comprises:\n engaging a first set of mating features on the first part with a second set of mating features on the second part with the first part and the second part positioned around the end portion of the fiber bundle to form the fastener system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11936839', '11952454', '10933846', '11490870', '13624427']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8249331285252409
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795134547928924
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7903911611520061
- Mean Citation Score: 188.290324
- Max Citation Score: 203.6312
- Similarity Product: 157.62684704837798

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