PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16142513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "024000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a compact device for wavelength-division multiplexing applications. In particular, disclosed is a device that includes a housing and a core at least partially positioned within the housing. The core includes a first single fiber stub, a second single fiber stub, and at least one functional layer positioned between a first fiber of the first single fiber stub and a second fiber of the second single fiber stub. The at least one functional layer is configured to: (i) permit routing of a transmission signal of a multiplexed signal along an optical path from the first fiber stub to the second fiber stub, and (ii) prevent routing of a non-transmission signal of the multiplexed signal along the optical path from the first fiber stub to the second fiber stub. A distance between a first ferrule of the first fiber stub and a second ferrule of the second fiber stub is less than about 0.05 mm.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of forming a compact device for multiplexing and demultiplexing, comprising:\n positioning a first fiber stub proximate a first side of a functional layer, wherein the first fiber stub comprises a first ferrule and a first fiber at least partially positioned within the first ferrule, the first fiber configured for optical communication of a multiplexed signal comprising a transmission signal and a non-transmission signal; and positioning a second fiber stub proximate a second side of the functional layer, the second fiber stub comprising a second ferrule and a second fiber at least partially positioned within the second ferrule, the second fiber configured for optical communication of the transmission signal, wherein a distance between the first ferrule and the second ferrule is less than about  1  micron and the functional layer is configured to: (i) permit routing of the transmission signal of the multiplexed signal from the first fiber within the first ferrule to the second fiber within the second ferrule, and (ii) prevent routing of the non-transmission signal of the multiplexed signal from the first fiber to the second fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68254
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11551760', '15889810', '11859229', '10836761', '15537259']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8083064174494082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4626370728385004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7737394829883175
- Mean Citation Score: 181.112046
- Max Citation Score: 185.17268
- Similarity Product: 154.16477324931142

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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