PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
The glass-based ferrules include a glass substrate and two spaced-apart guide tubes, which can also be made of glass. The guide tubes include bores sized to receive guide pins from another ferrule. The ferrule can be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a waveguide connector that includes a planar lightwave circuit that supports multiple waveguides. The ferrule can also be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a fiber connector that includes a support substrate and an array of optical fibers supported thereby. The waveguide connector and fiber connector when mated form an integrated photonic device. Methods of forming the ferrule components, the ferrules and the optical interconnection devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 76):
A method of forming a waveguide connector from a ferrule and a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) having a plurality of waveguides, the method comprising:\n engaging the ferrule with an active alignment jig that includes first and second guide pins and a plurality of optical fibers, wherein the ferrule includes first and second guide tubes attached to a glass substrate and wherein the first and second guide pins removably engage the first and second guide tubes; using the active alignment jig, bringing the ferrule into contact with a surface of the PLC so that the waveguides are at least coarsely aligned with and in optical communication with the optical fibers of the active alignment jig; actively aligning the ferrule relative to the PLC by directing light through at least one of the waveguides and into the corresponding at least one optical fiber and measuring an amount of optical power outputted by the at least one optical fiber while adjusting the relative position of one of the ferrule and the PLC to determine a target position of the ferrule relative to the PLC; and securing the ferrule to the PLC at the target position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08065
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15884622', '15797355', '14959956', '13871571', '15420549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8242167769372356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504745960354304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7922696952789424
- Mean Citation Score: 262.493478
- Max Citation Score: 281.13303
- Similarity Product: 205.5502728133553

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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