PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "137000"]

Abstract:
A photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter generates an optical signal comprising a series of optical pulses. The optical signal is split into a first and a second optical path. The split optical signal is detected in the first path and then the detected optical signal is converted to a reference digital signal. The split optical signal in the second path is modulated with an input RF signal and a plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals is generated from the modulated optical signal. The plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals is then pulse broadened, detected, and converted to a plurality of sampled-RF digital signals. The reference digital signal and the plurality of sampled-RF digital signals are digital signal processed to generate a digital representation of the input RF signal.

Claim (Index 40):
A photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter comprising:\n a) an optical transmitter that generates an optical signal comprising a series of optical pulses; b) an optical modulator having an RF input that receives an input RF modulation signal and an output that generates a modulated optical signal wherein the optical pulses sample the input RF modulation signal; c) an optical pulse demultiplexer having an input that is coupled to an output of the optical modulator, the optical pulse demultiplexer generating a plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals at a plurality of outputs; d) a plurality of dispersive optical elements each of the plurality of dispersive optical elements having an input that is optically coupled to a respective one of the plurality of outputs of the optical pulse demultiplexer, the plurality of dispersive optical elements increasing a width of the optical pulses; e) a plurality of optical detectors, an input of a respective one of the plurality of optical detectors being optically coupled to an output of a respective one of the plurality of dispersive optical elements, an output of each of the plurality of optical detectors being electrically connected to an input of a respective one of a plurality of analog-to-digital converters; and f) a digital signal processor having a plurality of inputs, each of the plurality of inputs of the digital signal processor being electrically connected to an output of a respective one of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters, the signal processor generating a digital representation of the input RF signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10280416', '13990161', '13569063', '13248830', '13447435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.573185856728025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888342521601088
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5647506962712334
- Mean Citation Score: 229.31588
- Max Citation Score: 250.94397
- Similarity Product: 224.009235213418

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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