PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "003000"]

Abstract:
A driver configuration for driving a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) includes a first driver supplied by a first voltage and a second voltage and configured to provide a first two complimentary outputs respectively to a first N-electrode of a first branch of the MZM and a second N-electrode of a second branch of the MZM. Additionally, the driver configuration includes a second driver supplied by a third voltage and a fourth voltage and configured to provide a second two complimentary outputs respectively to a first P-electrode of the first branch and a second P-electrode of the second branch. The driver configuration sets a difference between the third voltage and the fourth voltage equal to a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage to provide a same peak-to-peak differential swing for modulating light wave through each transmission line and output a modulated light with twice of the peak-to-peak differential swing.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 5  wherein configuring the first branch of the MZM further comprises forming a single PN-junction segment between the first P-electrode and the first N-electrode subjected to the peak-to-peak differential voltage swing and configuring the second branch of the MZM further comprises forming a single PN-junction segment between the second P-electrode and the second N-electrode subjected to the peak-to-peak differential voltage swing, under a non-forward bias condition that the first voltage and the third voltage are supplied as positive voltages, the first voltage is greater than the third voltage, the second voltage is 0V, and the fourth voltage is supplied as a negative voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15488950', '15909672', '15247091', '14472193', '15832296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8255928581655634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5712184594571007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.800155418294717
- Mean Citation Score: 338.691668
- Max Citation Score: 474.0207
- Similarity Product: 354.39616454755065

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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