PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
Methods of forming a ferrule are disclosed where the ferrule includes an inner member and an outer member. An optical fiber is secured in an axial bore of the inner member, and then offset of a core of the optical fiber from a geometric center of the inner member is determined. The outer member is then formed over the inner member to “correct” for this offset so that the core of the optical fiber ends up closer to the geometric center of the resulting ferrule. Related ferrules and cable assemblies including the same are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 15):
An optical fiber cable assembly, comprising:\n an optical fiber cable having an optical fiber with a core surrounded by a cladding; and an optical fiber connector installed on the optical fiber cable, wherein the optical fiber connector includes a ferrule comprising:\n an inner member with an axial bore that supports the optical fiber, the inner member having a first outer surface; and \n an outer member positioned over the inner member and having a second outer surface that defines an exterior of the ferrule; \n wherein:\n the inner member includes an inner member geometric center based on a profile of the first outer surface and a first central axis extending through the inner member geometric center, the core of the optical fiber being located a distance \u03b4 1  from the inner member geometric center; \n the ferrule includes a ferrule geometric center based on a profile of the second outer surface and a ferrule central axis extending through the ferrule geometric center, the core of the optical fiber being located a distance \u03b4 2  from the ferrule geometric center; and \n the distance \u03b4 1  is greater than the distance \u03b4 2 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90741
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15602468', '15455414', '15441512', '16143645', '14571557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8315850973488599
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5218535566588081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8006119432798547
- Mean Citation Score: 293.693082
- Max Citation Score: 345.38397000000015
- Similarity Product: 276.327087252009

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

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