PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16069555
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["359", "245000"]

Abstract:
We disclose herein an optical apparatus comprising an optical signal path which is driven by a plurality of electrical drivers. The electrical drivers are configured to optimise delays between two adjacent electrical drivers. The delays are optimised such that power loss in the optical apparatus is reduced.

Claim (Index 56):
An apparatus for generating a modulated optical signal, comprising:\n a plurality of electrical drivers; at least one optical signal path comprising a plurality of groups, wherein at least one group comprising a plurality of sections, wherein at least one section comprising a plurality of sub-sections, wherein at least some of the plurality of sub-sections each comprises an optical modulating element, wherein at least some of the optical modulating elements each is coupled with at least one of said plurality of electrical drivers; wherein said each coupled electrical driver is configured to generate at least one electrical signal for modulating at least one of the propagation properties of an optical signal through said at least one optical signal path; and wherein the electrical drivers are configured such that the time delay difference between the electrical signals generated by at least two electrical drivers coupled with the optical modulating elements of respective sub-sections within said at least one section within said at least one group of said at least one optical signal path is smaller than or equal to seventy percent of the time-of-flight of an optical signal through said at least one section within said at least one group of said at least one optical signal path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38889
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15602657', '13413883', '14989966', '14879149', '10550770']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7664653938568882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4644764085029714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7362664953214966
- Mean Citation Score: 184.262764
- Max Citation Score: 207.68288
- Similarity Product: 178.232026878891

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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