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 1):
A ferrule, comprising:\n a glass substrate having a front end, a back end, a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, opposite sides, and a central axis that runs through the center of the glass substrate between the front and back ends; and first and second guide tubes each having a tube central axis, a front end, an outer surface and a longitudinal bore with a central bore axis, wherein the first and second guide tubes are secured to either the first surface or the second surface of the glass substrate at their respective outer surfaces, the first and second guide tubes being spaced apart with their respective bore axes running in substantially the same direction as the substrate central axis.

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): 0.8237971659953135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5086511573089723
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7922825651266794
- Mean Citation Score: 262.493478
- Max Citation Score: 281.13303
- Similarity Product: 189.9803082484281

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

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