PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16195783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["398", "115000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a high-directivity directional coupler, and related methods and systems. The high-directivity directional coupler includes a first microstrip and a second microstrip disposed parallel to the first microstrip. The high-directivity directional coupler inherently generates an even mode current and an odd mode current in the second microstrip. The second microstrip provides a linear forward path for conveying the even mode current and a non-linear return path for conveying the odd mode current. The non-linear return path is longer than the linear forward path to compensate for phase velocity difference between the even mode current and the odd mode current. As a result, the odd mode current and the even mode current in the second microstrip can destructively cancel out each other, thus rendering high-directivity without compromising other performance aspects of the high-directivity directional coupler.

Claim (Index 18):
The WDS of  claim 17 , wherein the plurality of remote units comprises:\n remote unit optical-to-electrical (O/E) converters configured to convert optical fiber-based communications signals into digital communications signals; and remote unit E/O converters configured to convert digital communications signals into optical fiber-based communications signals, and wherein the non-linear return path is configured to compensate for an inequality between an odd mode phase velocity of the odd mode current and an even mode phase velocity of the even mode current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42623
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490028', '15473802', '15490049', '15263999', '15366144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6758484419962377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6340655467186916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6716701524684832
- Mean Citation Score: 337.32426
- Max Citation Score: 581.76166
- Similarity Product: 484.039546709739

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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