PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "080000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic connector sub-assembly includes a ferrule having a front end, a rear end, and a ferrule bore extending between the front and rear ends along a longitudinal axis. The ferrule bore has a first section extending inwardly from the rear end of the ferrule, a second section extending inwardly from the front end of the ferrule and having a width that is less than the first section, and a transition section located between the first and second sections. The fiber optic connector sub-assembly also includes a bonding agent disposed in at least a portion of both the transition section and the second section of the ferrule bore. At least some of the bonding agent in the second section of the ferrule bore has been melted and solidified.

Claim (Index 23):
The method of  claim 22 , wherein the bonding agent is packed into the ferrule bore by:\n loading a tube with the bonding agent, wherein the tube is hollow and an inner rod is slidably received in the tube, the inner rod being in a retracted position where a front end of the inner rod is recessed within the tube when loading the tube with the bonding agent; contacting the rear end of the ferrule with a front end of the tube when the tube has the bonding agent loaded therein; and sliding the inner rod relative to the tube and into the ferrule bore to move the bonding agent out of the tube and into the ferrule bore.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58491
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14920023', '15901151', '14886905', '15686490', '14687237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8674661881838289
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5782716079157082
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8385467301570169
- Mean Citation Score: 410.826594
- Max Citation Score: 470.79166
- Similarity Product: 450.81898014626256

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

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