PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035691
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector holding two or more LC-type optical ferrules is provided. The optical connector includes an outer body, an inner front body accommodating the two or more LC-type optical ferrules, ferrule springs for urging the optical ferrules towards a mating receptacle, and a back body for supporting the ferrule springs. The outer body and the inner front body are configured such that four LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver footprint or eight LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) transceiver footprint. A mating receptacle (transceiver or adapter) includes a receptacle hook and a housing with an opening that accommodates the receptacle hook in a flexed position as the optical connector makes connection with the mating receptacle by introducing the receptacle hook into an optical receptacle hook recess.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of reconfiguring an optical cable, comprising:\n providing the optical cable of  claim 9 ; removing the outer housing; inserting the inner front body, ferrules, ferrule springs, and back body into at least one second outer housing, the second outer housing having greater or lesser optical ferrule capacity than the outer housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26866
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16035695', '16016577', '15195405', '15670161', '15428189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8277744221535305
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537033595797336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7987003395179111
- Mean Citation Score: 289.342416
- Max Citation Score: 393.20633
- Similarity Product: 270.7609662604428

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