PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor including a semiconductor layer. A light absorber layer couples with the semiconductor layer at a pixel of the image sensor and absorbs incident light to substantially prevent the incident light from entering the semiconductor layer. The light absorber layer heats a depletion region of the semiconductor layer in response to absorbing the incident light, creating electron/hole pairs. The light absorber layer may include one or more narrow bandgap materials.

Claim (Index 4):
The image sensor of  claim 1 , wherein the light absorber layer is positioned between two shallow trenches in the semiconductor layer, each shallow trench extending only partially through the semiconductor layer from a backside of the semiconductor layer towards a frontside of the semiconductor layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15230134', '14723675', '13250237', '13552330', '12852990']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.930607740256544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5959987007787878
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8971468363087686
- Mean Citation Score: 334.761862
- Max Citation Score: 496.53287
- Similarity Product: 493.1190987905282

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