PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16240040
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["333", "109000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, generating, by a first hollow waveguide coupled to a first dielectric coupler, a first electromagnetic wave that couples onto a transmission medium, generating, by a second hollow waveguide coupled to a second dielectric coupler, a second electromagnetic wave that couples onto the transmission medium, combining the first electromagnetic wave and the second electromagnetic wave combine to form a combined electromagnetic wave that propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, and adjusting a first phase of the first electromagnetic wave, a second phase of the second electromagnetic wave, or both to adjust a wave mode of the combined electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 13):
A device, comprising:\n a plurality of couplers including a first coupler and a second coupler, the first and second couplers being in different azimuthal positions with respect to a transmission medium, wherein the first coupler facilitates coupling a first electromagnetic wave having a first phase to the transmission medium, wherein the second coupler facilitates coupling a second electromagnetic wave having a second phase to the transmission medium, wherein a combined electromagnetic wave, formed from combining at least the first and second electromagnetic waves, propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, and wherein the combined electromagnetic wave has a wave mode based on the first phase of the first electromagnetic wave and the second phase of the second electromagnetic wave; and a phase shifter that facilitates adjusting the first phase of the first electromagnetic wave, wherein the adjusting of the first phase of the first electromagnetic wave results in an adjustment of the wave mode of the combined electromagnetic wave.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52
- Patent Class: 333.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15786297', '15786034', '16106916', '16151078', '15372483']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9069046819943708
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5236103254829172
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8685752463432255
- Mean Citation Score: 345.01186599999994
- Max Citation Score: 377.13266
- Similarity Product: 358.7425487279856

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

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