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 9):
The scavenging photodetection device of  claim 8 , wherein at least one of the light absorbers comprise:\n a tertiary taper coupler optically coupled to a corresponding one of the tertiary light collecting waveguides; a tertiary input waveguide optically coupled to the tertiary taper coupler; and a secondary photodetector optically coupled to the tertiary input waveguide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16011155', '15788553', '15688427', '12638820', '15150350']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8122736257153622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.461582610441915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7772045241880176
- Mean Citation Score: 143.405006
- Max Citation Score: 145.23515
- Similarity Product: 112.02279108945132

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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