PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16111534
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["333", "02100A"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described that include one or more sidewall features to improve performance of a waveguide device. In particular, the sidewall features may be utilized within a polarizer section of a polarizer device such as a septum polarizers. The sidewall feature(s) may include recesses and/or protrusions. When a plurality of sidewall features are employed, the size, shape, spacing and kind (e.g., recess or protrusion) may vary according to a particular design.

Claim (Index 17):
A waveguide device, comprising:\n a plurality of polarizers, each polarizer having a common waveguide section, a divided waveguide section with a first divided waveguide associated with a first basis polarization and a second divided waveguide associated with a second basis polarization, and a polarizer section coupled between the common waveguide section of the polarizer and the first and second divided waveguides, wherein the polarizer section of each polarizer from the plurality of polarizers comprises:\n a central axis in a direction between the common waveguide section and the divided waveguide section, and a septum forming a boundary between the first and second divided waveguides, and \n at least one sidewall feature on at least one sidewall of the polarizer section, wherein the at least one sidewall feature is coincident with the septum along the central axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60714
- Patent Class: 333.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14940333', '14948179', '16031787', '15482130', '14835252']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.862329800190177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5380039490811978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8298972150792792
- Mean Citation Score: 311.6805500000001
- Max Citation Score: 388.65576
- Similarity Product: 366.3715259332752

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

Dataset: test