PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "043000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes an optical rib waveguide on a substrate, the optical rib waveguide further includes: a slab layer of silicon, a shallow rib of silicon in height that tapers laterally along a taper region, a deep rib of silicon that meets the shallow rib along the taper region of the shallow rib, and wherein the deep rib and the shallow rib have a same width, and wherein the shallow rib has a greater height than the deep rib, a core of silicon that tapers laterally in a range of 50-90% and extends on top of the deep rib and the shallow rib, and a cladding layer of silicon oxide that covers the slab, core, deep rib, and shallow rib.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the core has an initial width of 450 nm (nanometers).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82979
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10818415', '13550333', '14321376', '15826636', '10242682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8130173341964588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179151234976488
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7835071131265778
- Mean Citation Score: 165.930022
- Max Citation Score: 182.54608
- Similarity Product: 84.87597957873345

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

Dataset: test