PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16236685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
A pin exchanger has protrusions from gripping elements that engage fiber optic guide pins. Guide beams on the pin exchanger provide a reference for aligning the guide pins and the pin exchanger with a fiber optic connector and a fiber optic ferrule. An adapter is also provided that has openings to receive the guide beams. The adapter is preferably installed in a field tool and together they engage the fiber optic connector, align the pin exchanger and move the guide pin holder to allow guide pins to be inserted or removed.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of inserting at least one guide pin into a fiber optic connector, the method comprising the steps of:\n aligning a pin exchanging tool with the connector housing and an adapter, the pin exchanging tool having a first gripping element and a second gripping element disposed substantially parallel to and spaced apart from each other, at least one guide pin disposed between the first and second gripping elements; pushing the pin exchanging tool into the adapter and towards a front end of the fiber optic connector so that the pin exchanging tool inserts the at least one guide pin into a ferrule of the fiber optic connector while exerting force on the first and second gripping elements; and pulling the pin exchanging tool away from the front end of the fiber optic connector and the adapter after releasing force on the first and second gripping elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15801490', '14880794', '10747581', '15383356', '14860130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8305007235592536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5441860958805441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8018692607913828
- Mean Citation Score: 243.904746
- Max Citation Score: 400.14005
- Similarity Product: 331.4904292787612

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

Dataset: test