PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "104000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is described which uses directly modulated InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) or InGaN lasers as the transmitters for an underwater data-communication device. The receiver uses automatic gain control to facilitate performance of the apparatus over a wide-range of distances and water turbidities.

Claim (Index 53):
A system to optically transfer seismic data through an aqueous medium, comprising:\n a retrieval device comprising:\n a first optical transceiver to transmit light and receive light; \n an ocean bottom seismic (\u201cOBS\u201d) node comprising:\n a second optical transceiver comprising one or more optical detectors to detect a presence of the retrieval device and sense a relative angle of the first optical transceiver; \n a controller to adjust a transmission parameter used by a second optical transceiver to transmit light with the seismic data through the aqueous medium, and select, based on a signal from the one or more optical detectors of the OBS node, an anode in a multiple-anode photomultiplier tube and align an angular field of view of the second optical transceiver with the first optical transceiver; and \n the second optical transceiver to enter a power up state responsive to detection, by a second optical receiver, of the presence of the retrieval device, and transmit the light with the seismic data through the aqueous medium using the transmission parameter adjusted by the controller; \n the retrieval device comprising:\n the first optical transceiver to receive the light with the seismic data transmitted through the aqueous medium by the second optical transceiver of the OBS node responsive to detection of the presence of the retrieval device; \n a photodiode of the first optical transceiver that generates electrical output based on the light with the seismic data transmitted by the second optical transceiver and received by the first optical transceiver; and \n an automatic gain control amplifier of the retrieval device that receives the electrical output from the first optical transceiver and adjusts a level of the electrical output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.14634
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15334486', '15664697', '13843942', '15237106', '15664707']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7265641906094926
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6098502984811244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7148928013966558
- Mean Citation Score: 300.559116
- Max Citation Score: 333.83087
- Similarity Product: 324.1659768895608

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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