PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "137000"]

Abstract:
A photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter generates an optical signal comprising a series of optical pulses. The optical signal is split into a first and a second optical path. The split optical signal is detected in the first path and then the detected optical signal is converted to a reference digital signal. The split optical signal in the second path is modulated with an input RF signal and a plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals is generated from the modulated optical signal. The plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals is then pulse broadened, detected, and converted to a plurality of sampled-RF digital signals. The reference digital signal and the plurality of sampled-RF digital signals are digital signal processed to generate a digital representation of the input RF signal.

Claim (Index 14):
The photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter of  claim 13  wherein the optical pulse demultiplexer comprises a first and a second optical pulse demultiplexer, an input of the first optical pulse demultiplexer being optically coupled to the positive output of the optical modulator and an input of the second optical pulse demultiplexer being optically coupled to the negative output of the optical modulator, and wherein the plurality of signal analog-to-digital converters comprise a plurality of positive inputs connected to corresponding respective ones of the plurality of outputs of the first optical pulse demultiplexer and comprise a plurality of negative inputs connected to corresponding ones of a respective plurality of outputs of the second optical pulse demultiplexer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10280416', '13990161', '13569063', '13248830', '13447435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6003763721359032
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4987559909161044
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5902143340139233
- Mean Citation Score: 229.31588
- Max Citation Score: 250.94397
- Similarity Product: 203.64724221767312

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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