PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "058000"]

Abstract:
Optical fiber connecting devices and methods of connecting first and second optical fibers are described. The exemplary devices have a housing composed of an upper and lower housing portions, a mechanical element disposed in a cavity of the lower housing portion, the mechanical element configured to axially align and connect the bare glass portions of the first and second optical fibers; and an actuation mechanism to open and close the splice element a plurality of times, and allows the first and second optical fibers to be positioned, secured and actuated in the mechanical element at the same or different times.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 19 , wherein the actuation mechanism that locks the first optical fiber into the mechanical element also locks the second optical fiber into the mechanical element, and further wherein the actuation mechanism is deactivated after the first optical fiber is locked in place, thereby opening the mechanical element before the second optical fiber enters the second end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91071
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15762261', '15522183', '13532052', '15785626', '11551762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8287988439315405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5209009998170064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.798009059520087
- Mean Citation Score: 238.695048
- Max Citation Score: 312.3591
- Similarity Product: 219.5234545062304

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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