PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042046
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "077000"]

Abstract:
A ferrule includes a body and a lens part. The body includes a first connecting surface at which a slit for inserting an optical waveguide is open. The lens part includes a lens and a second connecting surface. The lens part is bonded to the body with an adhesive with the second connecting surface facing and contacting the first connecting surface. At least one of the first connecting surface and the second connecting surface includes a curved surface.

Claim (Index 3):
The ferrule as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the first connecting surface and the second connecting surface further includes a plurality of flat surfaces one on each of sides of the curved surface in a transverse direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the ferrule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30556
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15185275', '15625095', '15421605', '14094880', '15250999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8095352238163315
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763482585338591
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7762165272880843
- Mean Citation Score: 145.46886999999995
- Max Citation Score: 162.62212
- Similarity Product: 116.3171603992796

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