PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "080000"]

Abstract:
A method of making a fiber optic connector sub-assembly involves: initially disposing a bonding agent in a ferrule bore of a ferrule; heating at least a portion of the ferrule above a melting temperature of the bonding agent so that some of the bonding agent melts; and solidifying the bonding agent that has melted to form the fiber optic connector sub-assembly, all without an optical fiber being disposed within the ferrule bore.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a fiber optic connector sub-assembly that includes a ferrule having a front end, a rear end, a ferrule bore extending between the front and rear ends along a longitudinal axis, the method comprising:\n (a) initially disposing the bonding agent in the ferrule bore of the ferrule; (b) heating at least a portion of the ferrule above a melting temperature of the bonding agent initially disposed in the ferrule bore so that some of the bonding agent melts; and (c) solidifying the bonding agent that has melted in step (b) to form the fiber optic connector sub-assembly; wherein:\n the bonding agent has first and second ends along the longitudinal axis that have been melted and solidified following steps (b) and (c); and \n a portion of the bonding agent initially disposed in the ferrule bore in step (a) remains below the melting temperature of the bonding agent during steps (b) and (c) so as to not melt and solidify during steps (b) and (c).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67391
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15901151', '15900876', '14920023', '14886905', '15686490']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8583844944821278
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5674008870503842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8292861337389535
- Mean Citation Score: 413.53122600000006
- Max Citation Score: 449.07874
- Similarity Product: 446.1055756176913

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

Dataset: test