PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178253
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "060000"]

Abstract:
Optical fiber connectors configured to allow ease of change of the connector polarity by providing lockable outer housing. In an embodiment, an optical fiber connector comprises an inner housing, at least one key configured to move along the inner housing so as to change a polarity of said optical fiber connector, and an outer housing disposed around at least a portion of the inner housing and configured to slide in a longitudinal direction so as to expose at least a portion of said at least one key, wherein the outer housing includes a flexible portion configured to lock to the inner housing so as to retain the outer housing in a pulled back position relative to the inner housing.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical fiber connector comprising:\n a ferrule; an inner housing disposed around at least a portion of the ferrule, the inner housing having a front end portion and a rear end portion, the front end portion of the inner housing being configured to be inserted into an optical fiber adapter, wherein the ferrule is exposed through the front end portion of the inner housing such that the ferrule can make an optical connection when the front end portion of the inner housing is inserted into the optical fiber adapter; a first key and a second key disposed along opposing sides of the inner housing, wherein the inner housing includes at least one protrusion on each side configured to lock the key; an outer housing disposed around at least a portion of the inner housing and the keys, the outer housing configured to be pulled rearward relative to the inner housing, and the outer housing is further configured to unlock the first key or the second key; wherein the keys are in a moveable configuration which is one of the first key is proximal of the second key for a first polarity and the second key is proximal of the first key for a second polarity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35849
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15456792', '15205773', '14637314', '15601308', '15979483']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8330635115215631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5029049825462988
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8000476586240366
- Mean Citation Score: 272.238812
- Max Citation Score: 312.75146
- Similarity Product: 300.50399684980147

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