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 12):
A fiber optic system comprising:\n a first optical fiber including:\n one or more first cores for transmitting optical signals; \n a first cladding positioned around the cores; and \n a first key element arranged on the first cladding, and \n a fiber optic ferrule including:\n a ferrule body; and \n at least one fiber alignment hole provided in the ferrule body, the at least one fiber alignment hole configured to support at least a portion of the first optical fiber and including a keyway configured to receive the first key element of the first optical fiber when the first optical fiber is received to the at least one fiber alignment hole.

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): 0.817447118256028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4890946878844163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7846118752188668
- Mean Citation Score: 222.402394
- Max Citation Score: 227.83765
- Similarity Product: 170.05636487357617

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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