PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028293
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["250", "214100"]

Abstract:
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating photodetector circuitry. In one aspect, a photon detector system includes: (1) a first superconducting wire having a first threshold superconducting current; (2) a second superconducting wire having a second threshold superconducting current; (3) a resistor coupled to the first wire and the second wire; (4) current source(s) coupled to the first wire and configured to supply a current that is below the second threshold current; and (3) a second circuit coupled to the second wire. In response to receiving light at the first wire, the first wire transitions from a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state. In response to receiving light at the second wire while the first wire is in the non-superconducting state, the second wire transitions to a non-superconducting state, redirecting the first current to the second circuit.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for detecting light, comprising:\n providing a first current to a first circuit that includes:\n a first superconducting wire having a first threshold superconducting current; \n a second superconducting wire having a second threshold superconducting current that is less than the first threshold superconducting current; and \n a resistor with a first end of the resistor coupled to a first end of the first superconducting wire and a second end of the resistor, opposite to the first end of the resistor, coupled to a first end of the second superconducting wire, \n wherein the first current is less than the second threshold superconducting current, whereby the first current causes the first superconducting wire to operate in a superconducting state; receiving light of first intensity at the first superconducting wire, whereby the light of first intensity causes the first superconducting wire to transition from the superconducting state to a non-superconducting state and causes redirection of the first current toward the second superconducting wire while the second superconducting wire operates in a superconducting state; and receiving light of second intensity at the second superconducting wire, whereby the light of second intensity causes the second superconducting wire to transition from the superconducting state to a non-superconducting state and causes redirection of the first current toward a second circuit that is coupled to the first end of the second superconducting wire.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73016
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16012520', '16028288', '14775118', '14640257', '14983139']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7139782797542701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938623437735467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6919666861561977
- Mean Citation Score: 205.26275
- Max Citation Score: 264.74457
- Similarity Product: 219.8146637310004

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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