PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "081000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a field installable optical fiber connector for fibers optic cables with rigid strength members. In particular, the exemplary optical fiber connector includes a clamping member disposed within the connector that engages with and secures the rigid strength members of the optical fiber drop cable.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical fiber connector for terminating a jacketed optical fiber drop cable with first and second rigid strength members, the optical fiber connector comprising:\n a housing configured to mate with a receptacle; a collar body disposed in the housing, wherein the collar body includes a ferrule mounted in a first end of the collar body and a mechanical element disposed in a portion of the collar body; a backbone configured to retain the collar body within the housing, the backbone including a fiber guide channel between a pair of arms; and a clamping member disposed within the fiber guide channel, the clamping member being configured to grab opposing surfaces of the first rigid strength member, and being configured to grab opposing surfaces of the second rigid strength member, to secure the first and second rigid strength members within the backbone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39474
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15522183', '11551760', '12990520', '14465433', '13532052']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8355642434143697
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5118977054783559
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8031975896207684
- Mean Citation Score: 292.2358200000001
- Max Citation Score: 327.15463
- Similarity Product: 293.1554979454845

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

Dataset: test