PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "080000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic ferrule includes a body extending from a first end to a second opposite end, with the body including an axial passage extending between the first and second ends. The axial passage includes a first diameter portion having a diameter of at least 125 microns, and a second diameter portion having a diameter of at least 250 microns and less than a diameter of the buffer, the second diameter portion positioned between the first diameter and the second end. The axial passage further defines a tapered shape at the second end extending inward from the second end to the second diameter portion. A hub holds the ferrule. A method of assembling a terminated fiber optic cable is also provided.

Claim (Index 38):
A method of assembling a ferrule terminated cable comprising:\n providing a cable with an inner fiber, an outer coating, and a buffer layer; stripping a portion of the outer coating from an end of the cable to expose a portion of the inner fiber extending beyond an end of the outer coating; stripping a portion of the buffer layer from the end of the cable to expose a portion of the outer coating extending beyond an end of the buffer layer; inserting the exposed portion of the inner fiber and the exposed portion of the outer coating into a ferrule body, the ferrule body extending from a front end to an opposite rear end and having a first axial passage and an outer cylindrical shape, the first axial passage of the ferrule body having first and second inner diameters, wherein the first inner diameter is at least 125 microns and less than 250 microns and receives at least a portion of the exposed portion of the inner fiber, and the second inner diameter is at least 250 microns and less than 300 microns and receives at least a portion of the exposed portion of the outer coating, the ferrule body being mounted to a hub adjacent to the rear end of the ferrule body, the hub including a second axial passage, the end of the buffer layer being positioned in the second axial passage such that the end of the buffer layer is spaced rearwardly from the rear end of the ferrule body; and adhesively holding the exposed portion of the inner fiber to the first axial passage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43396
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13114721', '11497175', '11972373', '13648580', '15332854']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8327634664577906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229189901196698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8017790188239785
- Mean Citation Score: 324.434462
- Max Citation Score: 331.7273
- Similarity Product: 313.1801329675377

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