PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053551
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "147000"]

Abstract:
This invention discloses highly scalable and modular automated optical cross connect switch devices which exhibit low loss and scalability to high port counts. In particular, a device for the programmable interconnection of large numbers of optical fibers (100s-1000s) is provided, whereby a two-dimensional array of fiber optic connections is mapped in an ordered and rule-based fashion into a one-dimensional array with tensioned fiber optic circuit elements tracing substantially straight lines there between. Fiber optic elements are terminated in a stacked arrangement of flexible fiber optic circuit elements with a capacity to retain excess fiber lengths while maintaining an adequate bend radius. The combination of these elements partitions the switch volume into multiple independent, non-interfering zones, which retain their independence for arbitrary and unlimited numbers of reconfigurations. The separation into spaced-apart zones provides clearance for one or more robotic actuators to enter the free volume substantially adjacent to the two-dimensional array of connectors and mechanically reconfigure connectors without interrupting other circuits.

Claim (Index 6):
An arrayed collection of optical fibers in accordance with  claim 2 , wherein the substantially straight-line configuration of each optical fiber may include arced segments of limited length with greater than a minimum bend radius at the terminal array and throughput port array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51327
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15222649', '13279304', '12196262', '12196266', '13913431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8852449808011001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5925838728782218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8559788700088123
- Mean Citation Score: 475.59757
- Max Citation Score: 527.0532
- Similarity Product: 452.9106464282512

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

Dataset: test