PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750493
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["398", "188000"]

Abstract:
In one example, an apparatus includes e first beam splitter having a final output and a second output. A first optical waveguide is coupled to the first output, and a second optical waveguide is coupled to the second output. A first tunable phase delay is further coupled to the second optical waveguide and has a third output. A first set of phase modulators is coupled to the first optical waveguide, and a second set of phase modulators is coupled to the third output of the first tunable phase delay. At least one of the first set of phase modulators and the second set of phase modulators includes a phase modulator that is driven to three or more distinct phase states. A second beam splitter has a first input coupled to the first optical waveguide and a second input coupled to the second optical waveguide.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a first beam splitter having a first output and a second output; a first optical waveguide coupled to the first output; a first set of phase modulators coupled to the first optical waveguide; a second optical waveguide coupled to the second output; a first tunable phase delay coupled to the second optical waveguide and having a third output; a second set of phase modulators coupled to the third output of the first tunable phase delay; and a second beam splitter having a first input coupled to the first optical waveguide and a second input coupled to the second optical waveguide, wherein at least one of the first set of phase modulators and the second set of phase modulators includes a phase modulator that is driven to three or more distinct phase states.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.4
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10669130', '10613772', '14989966', '15255078', '10830331']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6538440540208234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4796769101138898
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.63642733963013
- Mean Citation Score: 156.24653800000004
- Max Citation Score: 159.75986
- Similarity Product: 125.5119273559642

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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