PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
The glass-based ferrules include a glass substrate and two spaced-apart guide tubes, which can also be made of glass. The guide tubes include bores sized to receive guide pins from another ferrule. The ferrule can be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a waveguide connector that includes a planar lightwave circuit that supports multiple waveguides. The ferrule can also be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a fiber connector that includes a support substrate and an array of optical fibers supported thereby. The waveguide connector and fiber connector when mated form an integrated photonic device. Methods of forming the ferrule components, the ferrules and the optical interconnection devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 80):
A method of forming a fiber connector from a ferrule and first optical fibers, the method comprising:\n engaging the ferrule with an active alignment jig that includes first and second guide pins and second optical fibers, wherein the ferrule includes first and second guide tubes attached to a glass substrate and a cover attached to the guide tubes opposite the glass substrate, and wherein the first and second guide pins removably engage the first and second guide tubes; disposing the first optical fibers and a securing material onto the cover so that the first optical fibers are at least coarsely aligned with and in optical communication with the second optical fibers; disposing a V-groove substrate having V-grooves onto the first optical fibers and the securing material so that the V-grooves engage the first optical fibers and the securing material; directing light through at least one of the first optical fibers and into the corresponding at least one of the second optical fibers and measuring an amount of optical power outputted by the at least one second optical fiber while adjusting the relative position of the V-groove substrate on the cover; and securing the V-groove substrate to the cover using the securing material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08065
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15884622', '15797355', '14959956', '13871571', '15420549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8241051921740926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5057855405974069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.792273227016424
- Mean Citation Score: 262.493478
- Max Citation Score: 281.13303
- Similarity Product: 201.4057882073915

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

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