PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16079838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["341", "155000"]

Abstract:
A photonic feedforward analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, the signal to be digitized is applied to only one electro-optic modulator. High speed is achieved by taking advantage of the fundamental property of a Pockels Cell to control wave polarization using the electro-optic effect. In a further aspect, once a bit is determined, its state is fed forward to the next least significant bit to aid in determination of the next lower bit. This nonlinear feedforward aspect of the ADC provides simplicity of its architecture.

Claim (Index 20):
The photonic feedforward analog-to-digital converter of  claim 18 , wherein:\n each of the plurality of stages further comprises a polarization maintaining coupler for coupling the polarizer and the polarization rotator with the stage optical input.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60317
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13386422', '13963876', '15875138', '13855564', '13963899']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6054660858615327
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875965756074278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5936791348361222
- Mean Citation Score: 194.57104400000003
- Max Citation Score: 207.06448
- Similarity Product: 160.82599836303712

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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