PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968988
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "100000"]

Abstract:
An optical communication cable and related systems and methods are provided. The optical cable includes a plurality of wrapped core elements, and the outer surfaces of adjacent wrapped core elements are joined together by discrete bond sections. The discrete bonds sections may be structures such as laser welds, ultrasonic welds, or adhesive material. The discrete bonds hold the wrapped core elements together in the wrapped pattern, such as an SZ stranding pattern.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of forming a core for an optical communication cable, the method comprising:\n providing a plurality of elongate optical core elements each having an outer surface; wrapping the plurality of elongate optical core elements around each other such that a portion of a length of the plurality of wrapped elongate core elements forms a spiral portion around a central area surrounded by the plurality of core elements in the circumferential direction when viewed in cross-section, wherein an outer surface of each core element is adjacent to the outer surface of one of the other core elements in the clockwise direction and is adjacent to the outer surface of one of the other core elements in the counterclockwise direction; bonding a subsection of the outer surface of a first core element of the plurality of core elements to a subsection of the outer surface of a second of the plurality of core elements, the second core element adjacent to the first core element in the clockwise direction when viewed in cross-section; and bonding another subsection of the outer surface of the first core element to a subsection of the outer surface of a third of the plurality of core elements, the third core element adjacent to the first core element in the counterclockwise direction when viewed in cross-section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15168545', '14231875', '15073770', '14317899', '15426537']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7900471128772895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986356657856792
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7609059681681285
- Mean Citation Score: 223.44750600000003
- Max Citation Score: 271.56625
- Similarity Product: 212.5580932328105

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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