PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058608
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
By determining an alignment point for a photonic element in a substrate of a given material; applying, via a laser aligned with the photonic element according to the alignment point, an etching pattern to the photonic element to produce a patterned region and an un-patterned region in the photonic element, wherein applying the etching pattern alters a chemical bond in the given material for the patterned region of the photonic element that increases a reactivity of the given material to an etchant relative to a reactivity of the un-patterned region, and wherein the patterned region defines an engagement feature in the un-patterned region that is configured to engage with a mating feature on a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC); and removing the patterned region from the photonic element via the etchant, various systems and methods may make use of laser patterning in optical components to enable alignment of optics to chips.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein the engagement feature is defined at a first predefined position relative to a waveguide defined in the substrate and the mating feature is defined at a second predefined position relative to an integrated waveguide included in the PIC.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31884
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15967313', '15420549', '15057638', '15692793', '14993448']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5314300962998297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4687088935264763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5251579760224944
- Mean Citation Score: 159.27162600000003
- Max Citation Score: 171.85826
- Similarity Product: 133.7929496211493

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test