PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "058000"]

Abstract:
Optical fiber connecting devices and methods of connecting first and second optical fibers are described. The exemplary devices have a housing composed of an upper and lower housing portions, a mechanical element disposed in a cavity of the lower housing portion, the mechanical element configured to axially align and connect the bare glass portions of the first and second optical fibers; and an actuation mechanism to open and close the splice element a plurality of times, and allows the first and second optical fibers to be positioned, secured and actuated in the mechanical element at the same or different times.

Claim (Index 17):
The module device of  claim 15 , wherein the at least one base housing portion is a ganged housing portion that is configured to hold the plurality of mechanical elements in a side-by-side configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91071
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15762261', '15522183', '13532052', '15785626', '11551762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8284692245052337
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5260620694036979
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7982285089950801
- Mean Citation Score: 238.695048
- Max Citation Score: 312.3591
- Similarity Product: 184.6022423729181

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

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