PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "050000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic lane changer includes a first and a second connector. A plurality of lane changer transmission paths include first ends received within the first connector and second ends received within the second connector. The first ends are arranged in respective ones of a first subset of a plurality of optical interface positions in a standardized connector configuration, and the second ends are arranged in respective ones of a second subset of the plurality of positions. In certain embodiments, the plurality of lane changer transmission paths have first ends that are aligned to optically couple with respective ones of the eight outermost optical transmission paths of the first connector. At least one of the lane changer transmission paths may have a second end that is aligned to optically couple with one of the four innermost optical transmission paths of the second connector.

Claim (Index 29):
A method of utilizing a spare optical fiber in a fiber optic cable that has a plurality of optical fibers that have first ends that are located in a plurality of positions that define a first array, the method comprising:\n attaching a fiber optic lane changer to the fiber optic cable, the fiber optic lane changer having a plurality of lane changer transmission paths having first ends that optically connect to respective ones of the optical fibers and second ends that are arranged in respective positions in a second array, wherein each of the positions in the second array is the mirror image of a respective position in the first array, wherein the first end of a first of the optical fibers is located at a first of the positions in the first array and the second end of a first of the lane changer transmission paths that is optically coupled to the first optical fiber is located at a first of the positions in the second array that is not a mirror image position of the first position of the positions in the first array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14172996', '14448252', '15715201', '10980704', '14537213']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8108421472496526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887332453392582
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7786312570586131
- Mean Citation Score: 224.568288
- Max Citation Score: 246.15483
- Similarity Product: 195.53013237401245

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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