PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939680
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "049000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes an optical wavelength selective switch that includes an optical wavelength separator, a layer of liquid crystal having a two-dimensional array of s electrically operable pixel regions, and an electronic controller connected to individual apply voltages across the pixel regions. The optical wavelength separator is configured to substantially direct individual wavelength ranges of light received at an input optical port to separate lateral areas of said layer of liquid crystal. The electronic controller is configured to apply the voltages such that at least one neighboring pair of the lateral areas have refractive indexes modulated along a first direction and are separated by a guard band of the pixel regions along a different second direction.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the applying first voltages modulates the refractive indexes of the lateral regions of the neighboring pair in a substantially periodic manner along the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75362
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13632937', '10901885', '11914946', '14421694', '14568750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6321566919599368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899111086137919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6179321336253224
- Mean Citation Score: 142.68558000000004
- Max Citation Score: 146.80055
- Similarity Product: 105.52350905599296

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

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