PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "043000"]

Abstract:
An optical system has a beam-steering device having a planar waveguide region between a tapered incoupler and a tapered outcoupler that respectively define opposing incoupler and outcoupler facets of the BS device. Each region has a substrate, a subcladding layer over the substrate, a core layer over the subcladding, and a top cladding layer over the core. Within the incoupler, at least one of the subcladding and the top cladding has a material having a refractive index that varies with an applied field (e.g., an electric field) applied at the incoupler. The optical system also has a field-applying device that applies the applied field at the incoupler, an output detector that generates a feedback signal based on detected outgoing light output from the outcoupler, and a controller that controls the field-applying device based on the feedback signal to alter the light output from the outcoupler.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein:\n the incoupler further comprises a top cladding layer comprising a liquid crystal material having a refractive index that varies with an applied field; the applied field is an electric field; the BS device comprises an electrode over the top cladding layer of the incoupler.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15048440', '14479039', '15325695', '13143260', '11216758']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7987817660090293
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4704882599842556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7659524154065519
- Mean Citation Score: 169.260268
- Max Citation Score: 175.09349
- Similarity Product: 132.95288997610692

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

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