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 56):
A converter for converting a ferrule-less connector to a ferruled connector, the converter comprising:\n a converter body having a rear end and a front end, the rear end being configured to receive the ferrule-less connector; a ferrule assembly mounted at the front end of the converter body, the ferrule assembly including a ferrule and a ferrule hub mounted to the ferrule adjacent a rear end of the ferrule, the ferrule assembly also including an optical fiber stub potted in the ferrule, the optical fiber stub having a rear portion that projects rearwardly from the rear end of the ferrule; and an optical fiber alignment device carried with the ferrule assembly and positioned at least partially within the ferrule hub, the optical fiber alignment device defining a fiber insertion axis, the optical fiber alignment device including an alignment housing containing first and second contact members that are spring biased toward the fiber insertion axis, the rear portion of the optical fiber stub being aligned along the insertion axis and extending within the alignment housing, the first alignment ball clamping the rear portion of the optical fiber stub.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14377189', '15403644', '15687665', '14764494', '14764502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.857135002240789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5623082727657004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8276523292932801
- Mean Citation Score: 401.123408
- Max Citation Score: 474.22836
- Similarity Product: 353.65848950895315

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