PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
A connector assembly includes an adapter, a housing device, a ferrule assembly, and a sensor. The housing device is received by the adapter and has a bore, a front end, and a rear end opposite the front end. A ferrule of the ferrule assembly is within the bore of the housing device and has a mating end extending beyond the front end of the housing device. The sensor is mounted on the rear end of the housing, the rear end of the ferrule assembly, or on the adapter confronting and spaced apart from the housing device or the ferrule assembly. The sensor is configured for detecting a force applied by the housing device or the ferrule assembly, respectively. An electrical characteristic of the sensor changes to indicate a predetermined force has been applied by the housing device or the ferrule assembly, respectively.

Claim (Index 7):
The connector assembly of  claim 2 , wherein the adapter includes a second adapter wall opposing the first adapter wall, and wherein the first housing wall is between the first and the second adapter walls when the first housing wall is received in the adapter and is on the inner side of the first adapter wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07843
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15200489', '15639400', '14928799', '13887053', '15499342']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8310403807259444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5378477707948032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8017211197328302
- Mean Citation Score: 246.036182
- Max Citation Score: 384.23004
- Similarity Product: 278.81348737419603

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