PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "003000"]

Abstract:
A driver configuration for driving a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) includes a first driver supplied by a first voltage and a second voltage and configured to provide a first two complimentary outputs respectively to a first N-electrode of a first branch of the MZM and a second N-electrode of a second branch of the MZM. Additionally, the driver configuration includes a second driver supplied by a third voltage and a fourth voltage and configured to provide a second two complimentary outputs respectively to a first P-electrode of the first branch and a second P-electrode of the second branch. The driver configuration sets a difference between the third voltage and the fourth voltage equal to a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage to provide a same peak-to-peak differential swing for modulating light wave through each transmission line and output a modulated light with twice of the peak-to-peak differential swing.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1  further comprising coupling a variable gain amplifier (VGA) between a differential data input and both of the first driver and the second driver, the VGA being supplied by the first voltage and the second voltage and configured to amplify a differential data input by a factor of a VGA-depended gain control voltage and output a pair of AC signals split as a first differential input to the first driver operated under the first voltage and the second voltage and a second differential input respectively to the second driver operated under the third voltage and the fourth voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15488950', '15909672', '15247091', '14472193', '15832296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8037079795286313
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5832301718441937
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816601987601876
- Mean Citation Score: 338.691668
- Max Citation Score: 474.0207
- Similarity Product: 441.66022608683113

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

Dataset: test