PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981071
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "043000"]

Abstract:
A photonic waveguide structure may include a tapered photonic waveguide structure within a photonic substrate, such that the tapered photonic waveguide structure has a tapered region that progressively tapers in width along a longitudinal length of the tapered photonic waveguide structure. The photonic waveguide structure also includes an optical fiber waveguide having a core region and a cladding region, whereby a portion of the core region is partially exposed by removing a portion of the cladding region. An outer surface of the portion of the core region that is partially exposed is substantially coupled to the tapered photonic waveguide structure. An optical signal propagating along the tapered photonic waveguide structure is coupled from the tapered region of the tapered photonic waveguide structure to the core region of the optical fiber waveguide via the core region that is partially exposed.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the optical coupling between the partially exposed core regions of the plurality of optical fibers having the downward sloping angle and the plurality of tapered photonic waveguide structures occurs via an overlapping region between the partially exposed core regions and the plurality of tapered photonic waveguide structures.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78846
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14510373', '15352692', '15688084', '15444523', '10565012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.815216504779026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5617157508869576
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7898664293898191
- Mean Citation Score: 297.071586
- Max Citation Score: 434.6022
- Similarity Product: 342.2726344534277

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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