PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
Methods of forming a ferrule are disclosed where the ferrule includes an inner member and an outer member. An optical fiber is secured in an axial bore of the inner member, and then offset of a core of the optical fiber from a geometric center of the inner member is determined. The outer member is then formed over the inner member to “correct” for this offset so that the core of the optical fiber ends up closer to the geometric center of the resulting ferrule. Related ferrules and cable assemblies including the same are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of forming a ferrule that includes an inner member with an axial bore in which an optical fiber is secured, wherein a core of the optical fiber is located a distance \u03b4 1  from a geometric center of the inner member that is based on a profile of a first outer surface of the inner member, the method comprising:\n forming an outer member over the inner member, wherein:\n the outer member includes a second outer surface that defines an exterior of the ferrule; \n the ferrule includes a ferrule geometric center based on a profile of the second outer surface of the outer member; \n the outer member is formed so that the core of the optical fiber is located a distance \u03b4 2  from the ferrule geometric center; and \n the distance \u03b4 2  is less than the distance \u03b4 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90741
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15602468', '15455414', '15441512', '16143645', '14571557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8316481605087814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5225913570683691
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007424801647403
- Mean Citation Score: 293.693082
- Max Citation Score: 345.38397000000015
- Similarity Product: 263.9380147473801

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

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