PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "438000"]

Abstract:
An avalanche photodiode (APD) array with reduced cross talk comprises, in the illustrative embodiment, a 2D array of Geiger-mode APDs, wherein a via is formed partially through the backside (substrate) of each APD in the array, wherein the via is offset from the active region of each said APD.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 13  further comprising forming front-side trenches on an opposite side of the active device layers from the substrate, wherein each APD in the 2D array is separated from one another by one of the front-side trenches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56757
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15269190', '14158511', '15240610', '14724270', '15602572']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9173311388272848
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5688861948426017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8824866444288165
- Mean Citation Score: 298.8171200000001
- Max Citation Score: 539.9642
- Similarity Product: 329.79003316258195

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