PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245763
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
A scavenging photodetection device ( 10 ) is provided. The scavenging photodetection device ( 10 ) includes an optical coupling portion ( 12 ) and a scavenging photodetection portion ( 14 ). The optical coupling portion ( 12 ) includes an optical coupler ( 16 ) configured to receive light from a light source, a plurality of light absorbers ( 18 ) arranged to absorb the light from the light source that is not collected by the optical coupler ( 16 ), and at least one primary input waveguide ( 20 ) optically coupled to the optical coupler ( 16 ) and configured to direct collected light to a photonic integrated circuit. The scavenging photodetection portion ( 14 ) includes a primary photodetector ( 22 ) configured to collect uncollected light from the optical coupling portion ( 12 ) to determine an alignment position of the photonic integrated circuit.

Claim (Index 8):
The scavenging photodetection device of  claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of tertiary light collecting waveguides flanking the optical coupler, wherein the tertiary light collecting waveguides are configured to collect the light from the light source that is not collected by the optical coupler and to couple the collected light into the light absorbers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16011155', '15788553', '15688427', '12638820', '15150350']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7930239395797346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4618122315662691
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759902768778388
- Mean Citation Score: 143.405006
- Max Citation Score: 145.23515
- Similarity Product: 109.9371868224144

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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