PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777517
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "098000"]

Abstract:
An optical connector includes a ferrule, a first optical fiber retained in the ferrule, a clamp section including an insertion section where a second optical fiber is inserted, a solid index-matching material disposed on an end face of the first optical fiber on an insertion section side, and a projecting portion on the end face of the first optical fiber and that projects more toward the insertion section side than a central region of the end face. The clamp section centers and fixes the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber.

Claim (Index 7):
The optical connector according to  claim 1 , wherein an edge of the projecting portion is rounded over.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15126137', '14848548', '15300494', '15981924', '12000896']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8303230067205121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922190541906031
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7965126114675213
- Mean Citation Score: 224.46243600000005
- Max Citation Score: 253.8499
- Similarity Product: 205.99812284326552

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