PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042020
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
An optical sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductive type. The optical sensor further includes a photodiode disposed on the semiconductor substrate and a metal layer. The photodiode includes a first semiconductor layer having the first conductive type and a second semiconductor layer, formed on the first semiconductor layer, including a plurality of cathodes having a second conductive type. The first semiconductor layer is configured to collect photocurrent upon reception of incident light. The cathodes are configured to be electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer is configured to, based on the collected photocurrent, to track the incident light. The metal layer further includes a pinhole configured to collimate the incident light, and the plurality of cathodes form a rotational symmetry of order n with respect to an axis of the pinhole.

Claim (Index 9):
An optical sensor, comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate having a first conductive type; a photodiode disposed on the semiconductor substrate, comprising:\n a first semiconductor layer having the first conductive type, wherein the first semiconductor layer is configured to collect photocurrent upon reception of incident light; and \n a second semiconductor layer comprising a plurality of cathodes having a second conductive type and formed on the first semiconductor layer, the cathodes of the second conductivity type extending to a surface of the second semiconductor layer, the cathodes configured to be electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer and, based on the collected photocurrent, to track the incident light, the optical sensor further comprising: \n a metal layer formed on the second semiconductor layer and comprising a shadow mask configured to allow the incident light to strike the first semiconductor layer; wherein the incident light only impinges an anode of the photodiode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14157891', '11580177', '14685905', '14283426', '12606845']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9085213064151128
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5386350552835433
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8715326813019558
- Mean Citation Score: 215.250156
- Max Citation Score: 380.97095
- Similarity Product: 370.2312362937332

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

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