PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15770702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "050000"]

Abstract:
A fiber optic lane changer includes a first and a second connector. A plurality of lane changer transmission paths include first ends received within the first connector and second ends received within the second connector. The first ends are arranged in respective ones of a first subset of a plurality of optical interface positions in a standardized connector configuration, and the second ends are arranged in respective ones of a second subset of the plurality of positions. In certain embodiments, the plurality of lane changer transmission paths have first ends that are aligned to optically couple with respective ones of the eight outermost optical transmission paths of the first connector. At least one of the lane changer transmission paths may have a second end that is aligned to optically couple with one of the four innermost optical transmission paths of the second connector.

Claim (Index 1):
A fiber optic lane changer that is configured to be interposed between a first fiber optic connector that has a plurality of optical fibers and a second fiber optic connector that has a plurality of optical transmission paths, wherein the plurality of optical fibers are positioned to optically couple with corresponding ones of the plurality of optical transmission paths when the first fiber optic connector is mated with the second fiber optic connector, the fiber optic lane changer comprising:\n a first lane changer transmission path that optically couples a first of the optical fibers to a first of the plurality of optical transmission paths when the fiber optic lane changer is interposed between the first fiber optic connector and the second fiber optic connector, wherein the first of the optical fibers is not optically coupled to the first of the plurality of optical transmission paths when the first fiber optic connector is mated with the second fiber optic connector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14172996', '14448252', '15715201', '10980704', '14537213']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8104209402792129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917950016431918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7785583464156107
- Mean Citation Score: 224.568288
- Max Citation Score: 246.15483
- Similarity Product: 187.81308633700849

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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