PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773937
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
An optical fiber alignment mechanism ( 100 ) operates to align optical fibers ( 102 ). The mechanism can include a key element ( 120, 130 ) arranged on the cladding ( 112 ) of an optical fiber ( 102 ). The key element ( 120, 130 ) can engage with a corresponding element of another optical fiber ( 102 ) to align the cores ( 108 ) of the mating optical fibers. The key element ( 120 ) of an optical fiber ( 102 ) can also be inserted into a corresponding keyway ( 226 ) of a fiber alignment hole ( 222 ) of a ferrule ( 200 ) such that the optical fiber ( 102 ) is oriented properly within the ferrule ( 200 ).

Claim (Index 13):
The fiber optic system of  claim 12 , wherein the ferrule body includes:\n a fiber support portion, the fiber support portion including at least one passage the at least one passage including the keyway; and a cover portion configured to be arranged on the at least one passage of the fiber support portion, wherein the at least one fiber alignment hole is defined by the at least one passage of the fiber support portion and the cover portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5283
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15463639', '14959956', '12353589', '15033659', '13468495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8330756769517861
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024200035638562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8000101096129931
- Mean Citation Score: 222.402394
- Max Citation Score: 227.83765
- Similarity Product: 147.60634099912048

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

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