PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "043000"]

Abstract:
A tapered core waveguide which may be configured as a spectral component splitter, a spectral component combiner, and various combinations thereof including a reflective mode of operation. The tapered core waveguide has an aperture and cladding, and is dimensioned such that radiant energy admitted into the core via the aperture and having at least two spectral components would be emitted via the cladding at a location dependent on its frequency and/or its polarization, and that a plurality of spectral components injected to the core via the cladding will be mixed and emitted via the aperture.

Claim (Index 11):
An antenna array comprising:\n a first and second spectral splitters, each comprising a tapered core waveguide, the tapered core waveguide comprising a core having a refractive index, and a first end and a second end, the first end defining an aperture, the core having a depth direction extending between the aperture and the second end, wherein the depth magnitude increases with distance from the first end towards the second end; the core having a plurality of width planes transverse to the depth direction, each plane having at least one width dimension lying in the width plane, the width dimension decreasing in magnitude in at least one direction as a function of the depth such that the width magnitude at the aperture is higher than the width magnitude at the second end; a cladding disposed at least partially around the core, the cladding having a refractive index lower than the core refractive index; wherein the aperture is dimensioned to allow passage of at least one spectral component of radiant energy having frequency associated therewith, and wherein the core is dimensioned at least in a respective width dimension such that the spectral component would reach a cladding penetration state at a first location; and, at least a first and a second energy receivers disposed about or within the cladding at or about the respective first location of the first and second spectral splitters, to receive the spectral component emitted via the respective splitter cladding, and transform the.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71186
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14426756', '14425631', '14425500', '13831575', '13685691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8509915994363558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5710054994223741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8229929894349577
- Mean Citation Score: 393.988346
- Max Citation Score: 482.95496
- Similarity Product: 403.0572696037865

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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