PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
The glass-based ferrules include a glass substrate and two spaced-apart guide tubes, which can also be made of glass. The guide tubes include bores sized to receive guide pins from another ferrule. The ferrule can be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a waveguide connector that includes a planar lightwave circuit that supports multiple waveguides. The ferrule can also be used to form an optical interconnection device in the form of a fiber connector that includes a support substrate and an array of optical fibers supported thereby. The waveguide connector and fiber connector when mated form an integrated photonic device. Methods of forming the ferrule components, the ferrules and the optical interconnection devices are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 30):
The waveguide connector according to  claim 29 , wherein each of the guide arms includes a flexible prong having a longitudinal slot and a recess, wherein each locking guide comprises a detent configured to engage the recess of the guide arm, and further comprising:\n a locking member that is axially movable over the connector housing and that includes opposites sides each having a tongue, wherein the locking member is movable to a lock position where the tongues engage the respective slots to prevent flexing of the flexible prongs thereby securing the detents of the locking guides in the respective recesses of the flexible prongs of the guide arm and moveable to an unlock position where the flexible prongs can be flexed to disengage the recesses and the detents.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08065
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15884622', '15797355', '14959956', '13871571', '15420549']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8229718413292526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.516305190537709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7923051762500983
- Mean Citation Score: 262.493478
- Max Citation Score: 281.13303
- Similarity Product: 159.4501268082762

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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