PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872176
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "009000"]

Abstract:
An optical phase shifting arrangement and associated optical switching device and method are disclosed. The optical phase shifting arrangement comprises a first optical phase shifter configured to provide a first phase shift to an optical signal, and a second optical phase shifter configured to provide a second phase shift to the optical signal in addition to the first phase shift. During a predefined period, the first optical phase shifter and the second optical phase shifter are driven such that the second phase shift is substantially complementary to the first phase shift.

Claim (Index 15):
The optical switching device of  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a second arm configured to propagate a second optical signal; an input optical coupler configured to, using a plurality of input optical signals, provide the first optical signal to the first arm and provide the second optical signal to the second arm; a third optical phase shifter and a fourth optical phase shifter arranged along the second arm and configured to provide substantially complementary phase shifts to the second optical signal during a corresponding predefined period; and an output optical coupler configured to, using the first optical signal and the second optical signal, provide a plurality of output optical signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52632
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09955235', '15447297', '11275420', '15674424', '13368141']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7711987425538669
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4686458713794633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7409434554364265
- Mean Citation Score: 162.96235
- Max Citation Score: 171.31458999999995
- Similarity Product: 138.36211116082248

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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