PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995568
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "072000"]

Abstract:
Improved optical fiber coupling reliability is realized by improving structures and materials used at the fiber joint. When ceramic ferrules are used at the fiber joint, the penetration of a UV-cured optical adhesive between the ceramic ferrules and the fiber ends is avoided or prevented, while an anti-reflective coating, an uncured optical adhesive, or a refractive index matching gel may be applied between the ceramic ferrules. When glass ferrules are used at the fiber joint, the UV-cured optical adhesive may be applied and fully cured between the glass ferrules and the fiber ends.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical fiber assembly comprising:\n a proximal fiber coupled to a distal fiber at a fiber joint, the fiber joint further comprising:\n a first ferrule connectorizing the proximal fiber; \n a second ferrule connectorizing the distal fiber and opposing the first ferrule at an interface between the first ferrule and the second ferrule; \n a first ultraviolet (UV)-cured optical adhesive introduced in the interface; \n a glass sleeve surrounding the first ferrule and the second ferrule to enable optical coupling between the proximal fiber and the distal fiber at the interface; \n the glass sleeve bonded at one end of the glass sleeve using one of the first UV-cured optical adhesive and a second UV-cured optical adhesive to a first outer surface of the first ferrule; \n the glass sleeve bonded at another end of the glass sleeve using one of the first UV-cured optical adhesive, a second UV-cured optical adhesive, and a third UV-cured optical adhesive to a second outer surface the second ferrule, \n wherein the fiber joint sustains a luminous flux of at least 70 lumens transmitted through the proximal fiber to the distal fiber without failure for at least 30 minutes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14894
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15647476', '15777620', '13598596', '13772059', '14190033']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8085420823459076
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343266907762863
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7811205431889455
- Mean Citation Score: 233.36887400000003
- Max Citation Score: 377.2438
- Similarity Product: 335.00509058752056

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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