PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "078000"]

Abstract:
Methods of forming a ferrule are disclosed where the ferrule includes an inner member and an outer member. An optical fiber is secured in an axial bore of the inner member, and then offset of a core of the optical fiber from a geometric center of the inner member is determined. The outer member is then formed over the inner member to “correct” for this offset so that the core of the optical fiber ends up closer to the geometric center of the resulting ferrule. Related ferrules and cable assemblies including the same are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein forming the outer member comprises:\n selecting the outer member from a population of pre-formed outer members after measuring the distance \u03b4 1  from the geometric center of the inner member to the core of the optical fiber, wherein:\n each of the pre-formed outer members is tubular, includes an outer member bore defining an inner passage, and has a measured concentricity error between a geometric center of the outer member bore and the ferrule geometric center; and \n the measured concentricity error of the outer member that is selected is substantially the same as the distance \u03b4 1  from the geometric center of the inner member to the core of the optical fiber; \n inserting the inner member in the outer member bore of the outer member that was selected; causing relative rotation between the outer member and the inner member to move the core of the optical fiber closer to a desired position where the core is aligned with or closer to the ferrule geometric center; positioning adhesive material in space between the outer member and the inner member; curing the adhesive material to secure the inner member within the outer member with the core of the optical fiber in the desired position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90741
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15602468', '15455414', '15441512', '16143645', '14571557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8477717328667004
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5265119971186607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8156457592918964
- Mean Citation Score: 293.693082
- Max Citation Score: 345.38397000000015
- Similarity Product: 236.5832236215592

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

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