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 43):
The method of  claim 41 , wherein:\n (a) the non-contact energy source is used to remove imperfections from the distal end of the optical fiber.

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): 0.8445624383148206
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163239015827339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8117385846416119
- Mean Citation Score: 277.237968
- Max Citation Score: 296.5591
- Similarity Product: 191.356144672674

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test