PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16236685
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "052000"]

Abstract:
A pin exchanger has protrusions from gripping elements that engage fiber optic guide pins. Guide beams on the pin exchanger provide a reference for aligning the guide pins and the pin exchanger with a fiber optic connector and a fiber optic ferrule. An adapter is also provided that has openings to receive the guide beams. The adapter is preferably installed in a field tool and together they engage the fiber optic connector, align the pin exchanger and move the guide pin holder to allow guide pins to be inserted or removed.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein after removal, the at least one guide pin is securely stored within the pin exchanging tool until a subsequent pin insertion step is carried out.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81132
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15801490', '14880794', '10747581', '15383356', '14860130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8479111470917585
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5431757123919304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8174376036217756
- Mean Citation Score: 243.904746
- Max Citation Score: 400.14005
- Similarity Product: 270.9862500047952

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