PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971665
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "024000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an optical splitter including two waveguides on either side of an axis. Each waveguide includes a first segment and a second segment that are closer to the axis than the rest of the waveguide. The first segments are optically coupled and the second segments are optically coupled. Each guide includes between the first and second segment, starting from the first segment, a first curved section including in succession a curvature the concavity of which is turned the side opposite the axis then a curvature the concavity of which is turned towards the axis, and starting from the second segment a second curved section including in succession a curvature the concavity of which is turned the side opposite the axis then a curvature the concavity of which is turned towards the axis. The first curved sections of the two waveguides are curved differently.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of splitting an optical signal, comprising:\n propagating the optical signal in a first waveguide positioned on one side of an axis with a second waveguide positioned on an opposite side of the axis; propagating the optical signal in the first waveguide through a first curved section of the first waveguide that is coupled between first and second segments of the first waveguide, the first curved section being positioned farther from the axis than first and second segments positioned proximate the axis, the first curved section having a first length; coupling the optical signal in the first waveguide into the second waveguide at first and second segments of the second waveguide that are positioned proximate the axis opposite the first and second segments, respectively, of the first waveguide; and propagating the optical signal coupled into the second waveguide through a first curved section of the second waveguide that is coupled between the first and second segments of the second waveguide, the first curved section of the second waveguide being positioned farther from the axis than first and second segments of the second waveguide and the first curved section of the second waveguide having a second length that is different than the first length of the first curved section of the first waveguide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96154
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15490420', '10071388', '15846413', '10675148', '13745529']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8062349661412416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4592862359718487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7715400931243023
- Mean Citation Score: 187.935462
- Max Citation Score: 200.56172
- Similarity Product: 181.1199759873295

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

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