PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "058000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber alignment device that has an alignment housing that includes first and second ends. The alignment housing defines a fiber insertion axis that extends through the alignment housing between the first and second ends. The alignment housing includes a fiber alignment region at an intermediate location between the first and second ends. First and second fiber alignment rods are positioned within the alignment housing. The first and second fiber alignment rods cooperate to define a fiber alignment groove that extends along the fiber insertion axis. The first and second fiber alignment rods each having rounded ends positioned at the first and second ends of the alignment housing.

Claim (Index 61):
A fiber optic apparatus comprising:\n a ferrule; an optical fiber stub potted in the ferrule; and an optical fiber alignment device recessed at least partially within a rear end of the ferrule, the optical fiber alignment device defining a fiber insertion axis, the optical fiber alignment device including an alignment housing containing first and second fiber contact members that are spring biased toward the fiber insertion axis, the first fiber contact member clamping a rear portion of the optical fiber stub.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14377189', '15403644', '15687665', '14764494', '14764502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8557294523711428
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5685757477394734
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.827014081907976
- Mean Citation Score: 401.123408
- Max Citation Score: 474.22836
- Similarity Product: 391.7018724403382

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

Dataset: test