PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974313
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["385", "128000"]

Abstract:
In an optical device, a ring-resonator modulator, having an adjustable resonance (center) wavelength, receives an optical signal that includes a carrier wavelength from an input-output optical waveguide. Then, a monitoring mechanism monitors a performance metric (such as an average power or a signal swing) of a monitor optical signal from the ring-resonator modulator. Moreover, control logic in the optical device adjusts the resonance wavelength based on the monitored performance metric so that the resonance wavelength is locked to the carrier wavelength. In particular, the control logic may apply a change to an adjustment signal that is provided to the ring-resonator modulator. If the change increases the performance metric, the control logic may continue to modify the resonance wavelength. Otherwise, the control logic may modify the resonance wavelength by applying one or more changes, having an opposite sign to the change, to the adjustment signal.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein adjusting the resonance wavelength involves adjusting the resonance wavelength using one of: carrier injection, carrier depletion and/or carrier accumulation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37681
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14463654', '14516301', '14203876', '14714078', '15019616']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8427732947659633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5472859792625598
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.813224563215623
- Mean Citation Score: 301.4966100000001
- Max Citation Score: 403.1932
- Similarity Product: 370.3488419752598

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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