PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "012000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to a method and device for coupling an optical fiber sensing element to an apparatus under test. A channel is affixed to the apparatus under test. The channel is partially filled with a coupling material. The fiber optic sensing element is placed on the coupling material. Coupling material is placed in the channel to uniformly surround the fiber optic sensing element and tightly couple the fiber optic sensing element to the apparatus under test.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein affixing the channel comprises affixing the channel to the apparatus under test via adhesive.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15789
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11077787', '11681709', '14957452', '11077788', '12047056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8042929293864818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746912891433516
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7713327653621688
- Mean Citation Score: 127.22128119999998
- Max Citation Score: 131.81242
- Similarity Product: 89.32871698809623

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