PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16363782
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "079000"]

Abstract:
An expanded beam ferrule includes a first ferrule halve having first reflective surfaces and a second ferrule halve having second reflective surfaces, which together retain optical fibers. The pair of reflective surfaces output collimated light parallel to the mid-plane of the ferrule. An external sleeve aligns the external surface of two similar ferrules, with corresponding second reflective surfaces of the ferrules facing each other. Output light from an optical fiber held in one ferrule is bent twice by the pair of reflective surfaces, with beam divergence after the first bent, and collimation after the second bent. The collimated light is transmitted to the facing second reflective surface in a facing second ferrule aligned by the sleeve, which is subject to optical reshaping in reverse to that undertaken in the first ferrule, so as to converge and focus light to input to the optical fiber held in the other ferrule.

Claim (Index 1):
An expanded beam ferrule, comprising:\n a first ferrule halve having first reflective surfaces; a second ferrule halve having second reflective surfaces, wherein the first ferrule halve and the second ferrule halve together retain optical fibers; wherein a pair of first and second reflective surfaces output collimated light parallel to the mid-plane of the ferrule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15680204', '15680203', '13861375', '13650119', '13650099']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8237970064133823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119019160800365
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7926074973800477
- Mean Citation Score: 269.25344800000005
- Max Citation Score: 329.3042
- Similarity Product: 311.4964660358072

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