PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989467
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "012000"]

Abstract:
A strain sensing optical fiber cable is provided. The cable includes at least one optical fiber embedded in the cable jacket such that vibrations from the environment are transmitted into the cable jacket to the optical fiber. The cable is configured in a variety of ways, including through spatial arrangement of the sensing fibers, through acoustic impedance matched materials, through internal vibration reflecting structures, and/or through acoustic lens features to enhance sensitivity of the cable for strain/vibration detection/monitoring.

Claim (Index 1):
A strain sensing cable for detecting vibrations in an environment comprising:\n a cable jacket; a first optical fiber embedded within the cable jacket; a second optical fiber embedded within the cable jacket; a tensile strength element embedded in the cable jacket; wherein, when viewed in cross-section taken perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the cable jacket, the cable jacket defines a first axis and a second axis; wherein the first axis intersects the first optical fiber, the second optical fiber and the tensile strength element and the tensile strength element is located between the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber along the first axis; wherein the second axis is perpendicular to the first axis and is located at the midpoint between the first and second optical fibers; wherein the first and second optical fibers each have a length within plus or minus 0.5% of a length of the tensile strength element such that both the first and second optical fibers experience strain caused by vibrations transmitted into the cable jacket from the environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57407
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15989480', '15989490', '13891803', '13652614', '13111483']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020350456153306
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.538917815331694
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.775723322586967
- Mean Citation Score: 279.09991
- Max Citation Score: 374.2201
- Similarity Product: 324.7516367901683

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

Dataset: test