PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "088000"]

Abstract:
At least some embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of optical fiber splicing and the evaluation of resulting splice joints. In an embodiment, the present invention is an apparatus for evaluating the integrity of a mechanical splice joint, and comprises a light source, digital video camera, digital signal processor, and visual indicator, wherein the apparatus connects to the test connector and the digital signal processor analyzes digital images of the scatter light from at least a portion of the test connector.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein said step of using said digital camera to determine said at least one characteristic of said splice further includes evaluating at least one of light radiating from said field fiber extending beyond said fiber optic connector and light radiating from an adapter that couples said light source to said fiber optic connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14084262', '15801644', '11304313', '12707016', '11340366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6663832750097877
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4827808530833863
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6480230328171476
- Mean Citation Score: 204.068296
- Max Citation Score: 223.04637
- Similarity Product: 182.96099832320093

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

Dataset: test