PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "028000"]

Abstract:
A waveguide mode expander couples a smaller optical mode in a semiconductor waveguide to a larger optical mode in an optical fiber. The waveguide mode expander comprises a shoulder and a ridge. In some embodiments, the ridge of the waveguide mode expander has a plurality of stages, the plurality of stages having different widths at a given cross section.

Claim (Index 15):
The waveguide mode expander of  claim 14 , wherein the ridge portion comprises a plurality of stages disposed atop the shoulder portion such that:\n a first one of the stages is in contact with the shoulder portion, and in sequence from the first one of the stages to stages that are further distant from the shoulder portion, each succeeding stage contacts the immediately preceding stage but does not contact the shoulder portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77778
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14722983', '15487918', '15051348', '15262937', '15588128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8440801693355946
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5321769318019353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8128898455822287
- Mean Citation Score: 333.62129
- Max Citation Score: 475.23773
- Similarity Product: 304.9438059603679

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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