PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16064872
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) assembly comprising a PCF and at least one ferrule structure. The PCF has a center axis and comprises a core region and a cladding region and a first fiber end section with a first fiber end. The ferrule structure has a center axis and is mounted to the first fiber end section. The ferrule structure comprises an inner ferrule arrangement and an outer ferrule arrangement surrounding the first fiber end section. The inner ferrule arrangement comprises an inner ferrule front section proximally to the first fiber end and an inner ferrule rear section distally to the first fiber end, and each of the inner ferrule sections have an inner diameter and in at least a length thereof fully surrounds the PCF. The inner ferrule rear section is anchored in an anchor length section to the first fiber end section and the inner ferrule front section supports the first fiber end section proximally to the first fiber end.

Claim (Index 15):
The PCF assembly of any one of the preceding claims, wherein said ferrule structure comprises a hermetic solder element arranged to surround said first fiber end section to form an annular hermetic seal between the first fiber end section and said inner ferrule rear section, said hermetic solder element is arranged closer to the front annular section than the anchor length section of the inner ferrule rear section, preferably said anchoring length section of the inner ferrule rear section is not fully annular, said anchoring length section of the inner ferrule rear section is preferably extending from about 20 degrees to about 350 degrees, such as about 180 degrees around the PCF.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.10714
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15324971', '15033659', '15564152', '15455414', '16064751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8044182652357679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164140503134119
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7756178437435323
- Mean Citation Score: 230.90422200000003
- Max Citation Score: 242.23524
- Similarity Product: 144.73092754398826

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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