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 2):
The optical fiber connector of  claim 1 , wherein the housing includes a protrusion configured to interact with a prong of the first and second key to release the key from said at least one protrusion of the inner housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35849
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15456792', '15205773', '14637314', '15601308', '15979483']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8488236093126691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074031961748652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8146815679988887
- Mean Citation Score: 272.238812
- Max Citation Score: 312.75146
- Similarity Product: 285.52785568410764

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

Dataset: test