PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952310
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "100000"]

Abstract:
A flat drop cable has notches or other structures for enhancing the stripability of the jacket from a core of the flat drop cable. The notches can have an angled configuration with surfaces that converge as the notches extend into the jacket. Inner edges, or rounded valleys, at the bottoms of the notches can be positioned along a tear path that intersects the core of the flat drop cable at an angle relative to a major axis of the flat drop cable. For example, the notches can be offset from a minor axis of the flat drop cable a sufficient distance such that the notches are positioned outside a central boundary region that extends tangent to sides of the core and parallel to a minor axis of the flat drop cable. The shoulders of the notches, where the notches transition to an outer jacket wall, may also include a radius of curvature.

Claim (Index 14):
A fiber optic cable having a central longitudinal axis, the fiber optic cable comprising:\n a jacket having a length that extends along the central longitudinal axis of the fiber optic cable, the jacket defining a transverse cross-sectional profile having a thickness and a width, the thickness being smaller than the width, the jacket also defining first and second sides separated by the thickness and first and second rounded ends separated by the width; a first reinforcing member embedded in the jacket proximate the first rounded end; a second reinforcing member embedded in the jacket proximate the second rounded end; a core positioned within the jacket that extends along the central longitudinal axis between the first and second reinforcing members, the core including at least one optical fiber; wherein a transverse cross-sectional profile of the jacket defines a major axis that extends across the width of the jacket and intersects centers of the first reinforcing member, the second reinforcing member and the core; wherein the transverse cross-sectional profile of the jacket also defines a minor axis that extends across the thickness of the jacket, the major and minor axes being perpendicular to one another and also being perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the fiber optic cable, the major axis and the minor axis intersecting each other at the central longitudinal axis; a first open-sided notch formed in the first side of the jacket, the first open-sided notch extending along the length of the jacket, the first open-sided notch being positioned at a location between the minor axis and the first rounded end, the first open-sided notch being defined by first and second surfaces that are formed at an oblique angle relative to one another and that converge as the first and second surfaces extend into the jacket, and wherein the first and second surfaces are connected by a first rounded valley at the inner portion of the first open-sided notch; and a second open-sided notch formed in the second side of the jacket, the second open-sided notch extending along the length of the jacket, the second open-sided notch being positioned at a location between the minor axis and the second rounded end, the second open-sided notch being defined by third and fourth surfaces that are formed at an oblique angle relative to one another and that converge as the third and fourth surfaces extend into the jacket, and wherein the third and fourth surfaces are connected by a second rounded valley at the inner portion of the second open-sided notch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1039
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15113713', '13555659', '13246225', '13652614', '12607748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8363971862260986
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5365071024770363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8064081778511923
- Mean Citation Score: 267.94869400000005
- Max Citation Score: 381.7905
- Similarity Product: 324.79148469266295

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