PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["359", "034000"]

Abstract:
A method for beam forming includes providing multiple instances of holographic metasurface antennas (HMAs), a reference wave source coupled to the HMAs, and a hologram function for each of the HMAs; combining the object waves of the plurality of HMAs, generated in response to the reference wave, to produce a composite beam; and modifying a phase angle of the object wave from one or more of the HMAs by modifying the hologram function of the one or more HMAs in order to modify the composite beam.

Claim (Index 11):
A system for forming a beam, comprising:\n one or more wave sources; a plurality of holographic metasurface antennas (HMAs) coupled to the one or more wave sources, wherein each of the HMAs comprises a physically separate housing and an array of scattering elements that are dynamically adjustable in response to one or more waves provided by the one or more wave sources; a computer, including:\n a memory for storing instructions; \n one or more processors that execute the instructions to perform actions, comprising:\n instantiating a hologram function engine to perform further actions, including:\n determining a first hologram function for each of the HMAs, wherein the first hologram function is employed by each of the HMAs to adjust each response of each scattering element to produce a first object wave having a first phase angle that is emitted in response to a reference wave provided by the one or more wave sources, wherein a combination of the emitted first object waves form a first composite beam having a selected strength and shape at a predetermined distance; and \n \n instantiating a phase angle engine to perform further actions, including:\n recursively determining a second phase angle for each of the HMAs in the physical arrangement by changing the first phase angle of the first hologram function of an HMA relative to the first phase angle of the first hologram function of a next HMA to provide coherency between second object waves correspondingly emitted by the HMA and the next HMA until each second phase angle is determined for each of the HMAs, wherein the hologram function engine determines a second hologram function that incorporates the determined second phase angle for each HMA; and \n wherein the physical arrangement of the plurality of HMAs emits a second composite wave based on each second object wave emitted by each of the HMAs, and wherein each of the HMAs uses its corresponding second hologram function to emit its corresponding second object wave to produce, in combination, the second composite beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93878
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10349579', '10166859', '10234043', '15659528', '14389921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7726829042586376
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4432180032126142
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7397364141540353
- Mean Citation Score: 95.095559
- Max Citation Score: 99.54407
- Similarity Product: 72.46987334180177

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

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