PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777620
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "080000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates generally to methods for processing ferrules of fiber optic connectors such that the amount of polishing that is required is eliminated or at least reduced. In one example, an energy source is used to remove excess adhesive from the end face of the fiber and likely from an end face of the ferrule.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein:\n (a) the plasma process includes directing a plurality of energy pulses at an end face of the ferrule to ablate a layer of ferrule material from the ferrule without ablating the optical fiber, wherein after the layer has been ablated the optical fiber projects distally outwardly from the ferrule a distance equal to a thickness of the ferrule layer removed by the plurality of energy pulses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36364
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15753864', '14831518', '13445096', '15803298', '15033659']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8452422115377578
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5080536381419669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8115233541981787
- Mean Citation Score: 277.237968
- Max Citation Score: 296.5591
- Similarity Product: 233.27734568454028

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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