PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976535
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "048000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical tap device. The optical tap device includes a cylinder having a rigid outer surface. A ferrule is configured to be located within the outer surface of the cylinder. The ferrule includes an inner chamber extending along a length of the ferrule. An emitter fiber and at least one tap fiber are located within the inner chamber. The emitter fiber is positioned within the inner chamber to be located at a central axis of a light source abutting the ferrule and the at least one tap fiber is positioned within the inner chamber to be located radial to the central axis of the light source abutting the ferrule. An optical feedback system and a method of providing optical feedback are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 5):
The optical tap device of  claim 4 , wherein the light source is one of a laser, a light emitting diode (LED), or an incandescent light source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59615
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14749496', '15441512', '15861073', '14959068', '14571557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8155833984359254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4932727592963543
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7833523345219684
- Mean Citation Score: 182.383406
- Max Citation Score: 217.60632
- Similarity Product: 155.40007988595482

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

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