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 3):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein cutting through the fastener system comprises:\n cutting through the fastener system, in a plane approximately normal to a longitudinal axis through the channel, to create the first fiber bundle and the second fiber bundle, wherein the first fiber bundle includes the first portion of the plurality of fibers and wherein the second fiber bundle includes the second portion of the plurality of fibers.

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): 0.8242848085632583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840007091089088
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7902563986178234
- Mean Citation Score: 188.290324
- Max Citation Score: 203.6312
- Similarity Product: 150.62826013216974

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

Dataset: test