PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15763343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
An optical ferrule adapted to receive and transmit light is described. The optical ferrule includes first and second alignment features for mating with corresponding alignment features of a mating optical ferrule. One of the first and second alignment features may be compressible, expandable or compliant. An optical ferrule having first and second alignment features is described, wherein the ferrule is adapted such that the mating/unmating to/from a corresponding ferrule can be effected along two orthogonal dimensions of the ferrule. Additionally an optical ferrule having first and second alignment features is described, wherein the first and second alignment features are located at substantially different first and second locations/contact regions along the ferrule mating direction; the contact regions may also be offset along the thickness direction of the ferrule.

Claim (Index 31):
The optical ferrule of  claim 21 , wherein the first alignment feature is located at a first location along a ferrule mating direction of the optical ferrule, and the second alignment feature is located at a substantially different second location along the ferrule mating direction, such that when the optical ferrule is mated with the mating optical ferrule along the ferrule mating direction, the first and second alignment features substantially simultaneously engage the corresponding alignment features of the mating optical ferrule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15763132', '11066986', '15006649', '14161792', '11907064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8140518412290406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5061932945749174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7832659865636282
- Mean Citation Score: 244.074044
- Max Citation Score: 251.5205
- Similarity Product: 181.58943630075456

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

Dataset: test