PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136124
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["326", "001000"]

Abstract:
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating superconducting circuits. In one aspect, an electric circuit includes: (1) a first superconducting component having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a constriction region between the first terminal and the second terminal; (2) a second superconducting component having a third terminal and a fourth terminal; and (3) a first electrically-insulating component that thermally couples the first superconducting component and the second superconducting component such that heat produced at the constriction region is transferred through the first component to the second superconducting component.

Claim (Index 12):
The circuit of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a photon detection component coupled, via one or more resistors, to the first terminal of the first superconducting component, the photon detector component configured to output a first current to the first superconducting component upon detection of a threshold number of photons; and an output component coupled to the fourth terminal of the second superconducting component, the output component configured to be responsive to a voltage drop across the second superconducting component; wherein the first current exceeds a current threshold of the first superconducting component, thereby transitioning the constriction region to a non-superconducting state; and wherein the voltage drop is responsive to the second superconducting component transitioning to the non-superconducting state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05455
- Patent Class: 326.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16046807', '16046815', '16028288', '16012520', '16107143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6509500150291209
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4968880495931736
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6355438184855262
- Mean Citation Score: 235.36838000000003
- Max Citation Score: 261.0359
- Similarity Product: 190.560101716888

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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