PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["398", "018000"]

Abstract:
A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 10 , wherein the communications signal is a first communications signal, and further comprising:\n detecting photons with a third photodetector in the array of photodetectors; and timing arrivals of the photons detected by the third photodetector with a third pixel in the read-out integrated circuit while the first pixel counts the photons detected by the first photodetector and the second pixel times arrivals of the photons detected by the second photodetector, the arrivals timed by the third photodetector representing a second communications signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14158511', '15004214', '14813159', '12178329', '12730048']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6765801482051504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5190045020092513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6608225835855606
- Mean Citation Score: 211.779142
- Max Citation Score: 245.8833
- Similarity Product: 183.47664439269303

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