PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "116000"]

Abstract:
Feeding a plurality of antenna elements of an array antenna, involves receiving at a photonic substrate at least one transmit modulated optical carrier (TMOC) signal. The TMOC signal is communicated to an array level photonic integrated circuit (ALPIC) disposed on the photonic substrate where one or more optical processing operations are performed involving the TMOC signal to obtain a plurality of element-level optical carrier (ELOC) signals. These ELOC signals are communicated from the ALPIC to a plurality of conversion locations distributed on the photonic substrate. Photodetectors respectively provided at the conversion locations convert each of the ELOC signals to an element-level modulated radio frequency (ELMRF) signal. The ELMRF signal are coupled from each photodetector respectively to one of the plurality of antenna elements.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for feeding a plurality of antenna elements of an array antenna, comprising:\n receiving at a photonic substrate at least one transmit modulated optical carrier (TMOC) signal; communicating the TMOC signal to an array level photonic integrated circuit (ALPIC) disposed on the photonic substrate; using the ALPIC to perform one or more optical processing operations involving the TMOC signal; using a plurality of optical waveguides to optically distribute a plurality of transmit element-level optical carrier (ELOC) signals from the ALPIC to a plurality of conversion locations distributed on the photonic substrate; using photodetectors respectively provided at each of the plurality of conversion locations to convert each of the transmit ELOC signals to a transmit element-level modulated radio frequency (ELMRF) signal; coupling the transmit ELMRF signal from each photodetector respectively to one of the plurality of antenna elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1746
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15869870', '15865779', '12176071', '15399563', '12176114']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6772906649528501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5282796934279179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6623895678003568
- Mean Citation Score: 241.528564
- Max Citation Score: 301.80933
- Similarity Product: 227.5771715285897

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

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