PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915347
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "072000"]

Abstract:
A pair of optical ferrules is disclosed. Each of a first ferrule and a second ferrule of the pair may include at least one protrusion and at least one recess. Each of the protrusions or recesses may have at least one channel for holding an optical fiber. Upon mating the two ferrules, the protrusion of the first ferrule is configured to be inserted into the recess of the second ferrule and the protrusion of the second ferrule is configured to be inserted into the recess of the first ferrule such that the optical fibers held in each protrusion are optically aligned to be connected face to face with the optical fibers held in the corresponding recess of the other ferrule.

Claim (Index 10):
An optical ferrule, comprising:\n at least one protrusion having one or more fiber channels for holding optical fibers; and at least one recess having one or more fiber channels for holding optical fibers, wherein the at least one recess is slidable with respect to the at least one protrusion, such that the surface of the at least one recess may be justified with the surface of the at least one protrusion and wherein, two of said optical ferrules are configured to be mated such that:\n the at least one protrusion of a first of the two optical ferrules is configured to be inserted into the at least one recess of a second of two optical ferrules such that the one or more optical fibers held in the at least one protrusion of the first of the two optical ferrules are optically aligned to be connected face to face with the one or more optical fibers held in the at least one recess of the second of the two optical ferrules, and \n the at least one protrusion of the second of the two optical ferrules is configured to be inserted into the at least one recess of the first of two optical ferrules such that the one or more optical fibers held in the at least one protrusion of the second of the two optical ferrules are optically aligned to be connected face to face with the one or more optical fibers held in the at least one recess of the first of the two optical ferrules, and,

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31481
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12855261', '10839650', '15774443', '15680204', '15443987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8171657876276844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887133785569087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7843205467206069
- Mean Citation Score: 228.874832
- Max Citation Score: 247.62332
- Similarity Product: 197.9337805771017

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

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