PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16361044
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "072000"]

Abstract:
A multiple arrayed parallel nanowire device includes one or more arrays connected in series, wherein each array includes a plurality of narrow nanowires flanked by one or more wide nanowires, a top electrode, an applied current, a bottom ground electrode, and one or more lateral electrodes where one or more currents or one or more probing voltages can be applied to detect voltage changes in each array. The device detects single and multiple photons without destroying superconductivity in all the nanowires in the array and is thus capable of remaining sensitive to subsequent photon impacts. Moreover, the device can resolve the location of each photon impact.

Claim (Index 1):
A photon detection device having a superconducting nanowire array, comprising:\n a substrate; an array including a plurality of superconducting nanowires connected in parallel disposed on the substrate; and a source electrode and a ground electrode connected to the array and configured to conduct a current from the source electrode through the array to the ground electrode, wherein the array is configured to detect one or more photon impacts; the array includes a first set of a plurality of superconducting nanowires disposed in an interior of the array and a second set of a plurality of superconducting nanowires disposed on a periphery of the array; a width of the superconducting nanowires in the first set is narrower than a width of the superconducting nanowires in the second set; and each of the plurality of superconducting nanowires of the first set is electrically connected in parallel to each of the plurality of superconducting nanowires of the second set, wherein the current conducted from the source electrode through the array to the ground electrode at least partially conducts through at least one of the nanowires in the first set of the plurality of superconducting nanowires disposed in the interior of the array; and in response to one of the superconducting nanowires in the first set of the plurality of superconducting nanowires disposed in the interior of the array losing superconductivity when impacted by the one or more photon impacts, the current is redirected at least partially into the second set of the plurality of superconducting nanowires disposed on the periphery of the array such that the one or more photon impacts is detected via a change in the current or probing voltage at each respective additional plurality of arrays.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69118
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16361002', '15898354', '13506857', '13507582', '14983139']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9179127330875816
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5420014830610634
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8803216080849299
- Mean Citation Score: 270.212468
- Max Citation Score: 386.81094
- Similarity Product: 377.14261240350015

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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