PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028264
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "114000"]

Abstract:
An optical cable includes a plurality of deformable buffer tubes. Each of the plurality of deformable buffer tubes includes a plurality of flexible ribbons, and each of the flexible ribbons includes a plurality of optical fibers. Each of the plurality of deformable buffer tubes has a non-circular cross-section. An outer jacket surrounds the plurality of deformable buffer tubes.

Claim (Index 15):
The optical cable of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a central strength member, the plurality of deformable buffer tubes being disposed around the central strength member; wherein the first deformable material of each buffer tube jacket is deformed plastically; and wherein, for each of the plurality of deformable buffer tubes,\n each of the corresponding plurality of flexible ribbons comprises and a first longitudinal length, and \n for each of the corresponding plurality of flexible ribbons, each optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers is attached to an adjacent optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers along a bond region comprising a second longitudinal length that is less than the first longitudinal length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09899329', '15278194', '10020173', '12085517', '15602336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278840487805711
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918676159642862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7942824054989427
- Mean Citation Score: 239.480708
- Max Citation Score: 243.28722
- Similarity Product: 187.393132240212

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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