PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16119875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "093000"]

Abstract:
A ferrule-to-lens latch mechanism includes a cover movable with respect to a housing of an optical assembly between an open position in which a cavity defined by the housing is visible and a closed position in which the cavity is covered by the cover. A lens is positioned in the cavity and has one or more guide pins which are visible when the cover is in the open position prior to mating a ferrule to the lens. A spring clip coupled to the housing and positioned in the cavity is configured to allow insertion and removal of the ferrule from the cavity when the cover is in the open position and may bias the ferrule against the lens when the ferrule is mated to the lens. When the ferrule is mated to the lens, the cover may cooperate with the spring clip to inhibit removal of the ferrule.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of to provide a secure ferrule-to-lens connection, the method comprising:\n moving a cover connected to a housing of an optical assembly to an open position to expose male guide pins of a lens of the optical assembly, the male guide pins of the lens positioned within a receptacle portion of a spring clip; visually aligning the male guide pins of the lens with corresponding female openings of a ferrule, the male guide pins oriented in a direction facing a bottleneck opening in a bottleneck portion of the spring clip; inserting the ferrule through the bottleneck opening of the spring clip into the receptacle portion of the spring clip, the bottleneck portion of the spring clip configured to flex outward into a flex groove during the inserting; mating the male guide pins of the lens with the female openings of the ferrule, the mating configured to be complete in response to the bottleneck portion abutting a rear portion of the ferrule opposite a front portion of the ferrule mated with the lens; and moving the cover of the optical assembly to a closed position such that lock pins of the cover cooperate with the spring clip to inhibit removal of the ferrule from the lens of the optical assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11646133', '11716415', '11076684', '12858078', '14741289']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8121448028692654
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4902494311018656
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7799552656925254
- Mean Citation Score: 202.700848
- Max Citation Score: 207.1674
- Similarity Product: 140.48863327674866

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

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