PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763492
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "059000"]

Abstract:
A multi-piece optical coupling device comprises a first piece that includes one or more first receiving elements configured to receive and secure one or more optical waveguides. The first piece further includes one or more light affecting elements configured to affect one or more characteristics of light from the optical waveguides while propagating the light within the optical coupling device. A second piece is separate from the first piece and includes one or more second receiving elements configured to receive the waveguides, the first receiving elements and the second receiving elements configured to align the second piece and the first piece using the optical waveguides. The second piece also includes one or more mating alignment features configured to engage with a mating optical coupling device and to align the optical coupling device with the mating optical coupling device.

Claim (Index 25):
The optical coupling device of  claim 22 , wherein the second mating alignment features comprise arms that extend from the second piece.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04255
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15021560', '15763512', '15763523', '11020520', '15763136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8225387565095894
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950109351083462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7897859743694652
- Mean Citation Score: 193.97596200000004
- Max Citation Score: 210.35362
- Similarity Product: 148.9138261711001

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

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