PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867938
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["398", "016000"]

Abstract:
A multimode launch system to be connected to an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) for use in performing at least one OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array Device Under Test (DUT), the multimode launch system comprising: an optical switch being connectable to the OTDR during use; a launch array device having an end being connectable to the optical switch and another end being connectable to the multi-fiber array DUT during use, the launch array device having a plurality of multimode launch optical fibers each having at least one first guidance parameter being smaller than a corresponding one of at least one second guidance parameter of at least one multimode optical fiber of the optical switch; and a multi-fiber mode conditioner along the launch array device for inducing a preferential attenuation of higher-order optical modes of test light propagated into the multi-fiber array DUT during use.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for performing a measurement using an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) on a multi-fiber array Device Under Test (DUT), the method comprising:\n using an optical switch, propagating test light received from the OTDR and transmitting the received test light along one of a plurality of multimode launch optical fibers of a launch array device each being connected to a respective one of a plurality of multimode optical fibers of the multi-fiber array DUT; using a multi-fiber mode conditioner of the launch array device, inducing a preferential attenuation of high-order optical fiber modes of the test light being propagated along the launch array device and on a portion of the test light being backscattered along the launch array device; and using the optical switch, scrambling the optical fiber modes of the backscattered portion of test light prior to detection by the OTDR.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15263036', '15220715', '12570853', '11461661', '14820864']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6979965089408816
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6733342302920812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6955302810760016
- Mean Citation Score: 363.196794
- Max Citation Score: 674.4999
- Similarity Product: 607.410397151345

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

Dataset: test