PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16236685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
A pin exchanger has protrusions from gripping elements that engage fiber optic guide pins. Guide beams on the pin exchanger provide a reference for aligning the guide pins and the pin exchanger with a fiber optic connector and a fiber optic ferrule. An adapter is also provided that has openings to receive the guide beams. The adapter is preferably installed in a field tool and together they engage the fiber optic connector, align the pin exchanger and move the guide pin holder to allow guide pins to be inserted or removed.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of removing at least one guide pin from a fiber optic connector, the fiber optic connector having a connector housing, the method comprising the steps of:\n aligning a pin exchanging tool with the connector housing, the pin exchanging tool having a first gripping element and a second gripping element disposed substantially parallel to and spaced apart from each other; pushing the pin exchanging tool towards a front end of the fiber optic connector so that the pin exchanging tool engages the at least one guide pin in a ferrule of the fiber optic connector between the first and second gripping elements; and pulling the pin exchanging tool away from the front end of the fiber optic connector while exerting force on the first and second gripping elements to remove the at least one guide pin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15801490', '14880794', '10747581', '15383356', '14860130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8307931320676143
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5435186802966315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.802065686890516
- Mean Citation Score: 243.904746
- Max Citation Score: 400.14005
- Similarity Product: 319.21811521617167

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

Dataset: test