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 1):
A method of forming a photonic waveguide coupling device from a fiber optic ferrule device having a single row of substantially parallel fiber holes for receiving a plurality of optical fibers, the method comprising:\n forming a fiber mounting block by removing a top portion of the fiber optic ferrule device, the removed top portion converting the single row of substantially parallel fiber holes into a single row of substantially parallel channels; placing a plurality of optical fibers having end facets in the single row of substantially parallel channels, the end facets being substantially flush with end portions of the single row of substantially parallel channels; and polishing the plurality of optical fibers to partially expose core regions of the plurality of optical fibers and generating a downward sloping angle along the length of the core regions towards the end facets, wherein the partially exposed core regions of the plurality of optical fibers having the downward sloping angle along the length of the core regions towards the end facets provide optical coupling with a plurality of tapered photonic waveguide structures in an integrated circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78846
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14510373', '15352692', '15688084', '15444523', '10565012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7942717295255531
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5662382077914792
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7714683773521458
- Mean Citation Score: 297.071586
- Max Citation Score: 434.6022
- Similarity Product: 403.80482518179423

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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