PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["385", "137000"]

Abstract:
A coupling unit includes a light coupling element comprising an attachment area for receiving and permanently attaching to a plurality of optical waveguides. One or more grooves are provided at the attachment area. Each groove is configured to receive an optical waveguide and defined by a bottom surface, a first region, a second region, and an opening. The first region is defined between the bottom surface and the second region. The first region in cross section has substantially parallel sidewalls separated by a spacing. The second region is disposed between the first region and the opening. A width of the opening is greater than the spacing.

Claim (Index 25):
The coupling unit of  claim 21 , wherein:\n the parallel sidewalls comprise a first sidewall and a second sidewall; the first sidewall is planar; the second sidewall comprises a section that angles inwardly toward a central plane of the groove in the transition section; and the section of the second sidewall is configured to force a terminal end of the optical waveguide against the first sidewall, wherein the section of the second sidewall is configured to prevent further longitudinal advancement of the terminal end of the optical waveguide within the groove.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93333
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15763512', '15763523', '15763132', '15121183', '15021560']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.840237364719871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5479903561026298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8110126638581469
- Mean Citation Score: 290.12731
- Max Citation Score: 432.59772
- Similarity Product: 282.1525768232274

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