PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16079610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["398", "085000"]

Abstract:
In order to provide a feature with which it is possible to suppress the occurrence of an optical surge independently of the type of optical switch, there is provided an optical control device for processing inputted first light and outputting second light, wherein the optical control device is provided with: a switching unit for switching and outputting first light that has undergone a selected process; and a variable output unit connected in series to the switching unit, the variable output unit operating so as to reduce the optical power of the second light before switching by the switching unit is executed and to gradually increase the optical power of the second light after the switching is executed.

Claim (Index 5):
The optical control device according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n a controller configured to control the variable output circuit and the switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01639
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14411698', '12892915', '15746279', '15558353', '15516204']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.679929469053353
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5073998089043976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6626765030384575
- Mean Citation Score: 224.952538
- Max Citation Score: 242.49683
- Similarity Product: 188.65459783457217

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

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