PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035691
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector holding two or more LC-type optical ferrules is provided. The optical connector includes an outer body, an inner front body accommodating the two or more LC-type optical ferrules, ferrule springs for urging the optical ferrules towards a mating receptacle, and a back body for supporting the ferrule springs. The outer body and the inner front body are configured such that four LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver footprint or eight LC-type optical ferrules are accommodated in a quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) transceiver footprint. A mating receptacle (transceiver or adapter) includes a receptacle hook and a housing with an opening that accommodates the receptacle hook in a flexed position as the optical connector makes connection with the mating receptacle by introducing the receptacle hook into an optical receptacle hook recess.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of reconfiguring an optical cable according to  claim 10 , wherein the outer housing has a two-ferrule capacity and the second outer housing has a four-ferrule or eight-ferrule capacity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26866
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16035695', '16016577', '15195405', '15670161', '15428189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8441296014374199
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5391928498515384
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8136359262788317
- Mean Citation Score: 289.342416
- Max Citation Score: 393.20633
- Similarity Product: 267.7659149168014

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