PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046815
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "200000"]

Abstract:
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for detecting light. In one aspect, a photodetector device includes: a superconducting wire, and a transistor that includes a semiconducting component and a superconducting component. The superconducting wire is electrically coupled to the superconducting component. The semiconducting component is located adjacent to the superconducting component. The superconducting component is configured to, in response to receiving an input current exceeding a current threshold, transition from a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state and generate heat sufficient to increase a temperature of the semiconducting component from a temperature below a semiconducting threshold temperature to a temperature above the semiconducting threshold temperature.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for detecting light, comprising:\n with a transistor that includes:\n a first wire including a semiconducting component configured to operate in an on state at temperatures above a semiconducting threshold temperature; and \n a second wire including a superconducting component configured to operate in a superconducting state while:\n a temperature of the superconducting component is below a superconducting threshold temperature; and \n current supplied to the superconducting component is below a current threshold; \n \n at a superconducting wire electrically coupled to the second wire, initiating exposure to light of a first intensity while the semiconducting component is at a temperature below the semiconducting threshold temperature and the superconducting component is at a temperature below the superconducting threshold temperature; and determining that the light of the first intensity has been received by the superconducting wire based on one or more characteristics of an electrical signal flowing through the first wire.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12281
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16046807', '16012520', '16028288', '16028293', '15600036']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6628098702690876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5493123406337436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6514601173055532
- Mean Citation Score: 252.611608
- Max Citation Score: 399.89413
- Similarity Product: 351.07730776674987

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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