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 20):
The method according to  claim 19 , wherein the flexure elements and stop surface move forwardly toward the ends of the first and second legs upon the application of the external force to the first and second gripping elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15801490', '14880794', '10747581', '15383356', '14860130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8476266198736633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5438837788816638
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8172523357744634
- Mean Citation Score: 243.904746
- Max Citation Score: 400.14005
- Similarity Product: 284.0045984966964

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

Dataset: test