PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773937
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
An optical fiber alignment mechanism ( 100 ) operates to align optical fibers ( 102 ). The mechanism can include a key element ( 120, 130 ) arranged on the cladding ( 112 ) of an optical fiber ( 102 ). The key element ( 120, 130 ) can engage with a corresponding element of another optical fiber ( 102 ) to align the cores ( 108 ) of the mating optical fibers. The key element ( 120 ) of an optical fiber ( 102 ) can also be inserted into a corresponding keyway ( 226 ) of a fiber alignment hole ( 222 ) of a ferrule ( 200 ) such that the optical fiber ( 102 ) is oriented properly within the ferrule ( 200 ).

Claim (Index 6):
The optical fiber of  claim 4 , further including a second optical fiber comprising:\n one or more cores configured to mate with the cores of the optical fiber; a cladding positioned around a circumference of the cores of the second optical fiber; and a female key element arranged on the cladding of the second optical fiber, the female key element configured to be complementary to the male key element of the optical fiber and prevent rotation of the optical fiber relative to the second optical fiber when engaging the male key element of the optical fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5283
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463639', '14959956', '12353589', '15033659', '13468495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157129004196559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013188788766324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7842734982653535
- Mean Citation Score: 222.402394
- Max Citation Score: 227.83765
- Similarity Product: 145.17032791703343

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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