PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878905
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "141000"]

Abstract:
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a photonic apparatus. The photonic apparatus including a phase shifter that modulates a light wave propagated within the phase shifter by progressively shifting a phase of the light wave along a length of the phase shifter. The photonic apparatus includes optical outputs operably connected with the phase shifter at intervals along the length of the phase shifter. The optical outputs provide the light wave with different phases according to the intervals at which the optical outputs are spaced on the phase shifter.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for dynamically controlling a continuous phase shifter, comprising:\n in response to an electronic control signal that indicates a requested direction in which to steer a beam of light, adjusting, using a heater operably connected with the continuous phase shifter, an amount of thermal energy provided to the continuous phase shifter that is a continuous waveguide; continuously modulating a phase of a light wave as the light wave propagates along a length of the continuous phase shifter and as a function of the thermal energy to provide the light wave having different phases along the length; and coupling, from the continuous phase shifter via optical outputs spaced at intervals along the continuous phase shifter, a plurality of distinct waves with distinct phases that are the different phases formed by the optical outputs coupling the light wave at the intervals from the continuous phase shifter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06383
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15685277', '14290979', '15610396', '15846755', '13239936']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6192209225738086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154011295431762
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6088389432707453
- Mean Citation Score: 205.47902600000003
- Max Citation Score: 253.02747
- Similarity Product: 205.2592676882708

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

Dataset: test