PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753864
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["385", "079000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic component including a ferrule having a distal end and a proximal end. The ferrule defines a fiber passage extending though the ferrule along a fiber passage axis in a proximal-to-distal orientation. The fiber optic component also includes an optical fiber structure affixed within the fiber passage. The optical fiber structure includes a beam expansion section optically coupled to a sacrificial section. The beam expansion section has a construction adapted to expand an optical beam from a first beam diameter to an enlarged second beam diameter. The sacrificial section is configured to receive the optical beam having the second beam diameter from the beam expansion section. The sacrificial section is positioned at the distal end of the ferrule and has a polished end face at the distal end of the ferrule. The sacrificial section has a core-less construction or has a core with a core diameter that is larger than the enlarged second beam diameter.

Claim (Index 2):
The fiber optic component of  claim 1 , wherein the beam expansion section includes a GRIN fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65625
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14907214', '15803298', '15777620', '15889810', '14316092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8577598212136276
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5372745868400417
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8257112977762691
- Mean Citation Score: 341.613884
- Max Citation Score: 383.5253
- Similarity Product: 332.239252724725

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

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