PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "058000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber alignment device that has an alignment housing that includes first and second ends. The alignment housing defines a fiber insertion axis that extends through the alignment housing between the first and second ends. The alignment housing includes a fiber alignment region at an intermediate location between the first and second ends. First and second fiber alignment rods are positioned within the alignment housing. The first and second fiber alignment rods cooperate to define a fiber alignment groove that extends along the fiber insertion axis. The first and second fiber alignment rods each having rounded ends positioned at the first and second ends of the alignment housing.

Claim (Index 62):
The fiber optic apparatus of  claim 61 , wherein the first and second fiber contact members are balls.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14377189', '15403644', '15687665', '14764494', '14764502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8718858300738388
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5606388010992306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.840761127176378
- Mean Citation Score: 401.123408
- Max Citation Score: 474.22836
- Similarity Product: 329.8367710928178

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