PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16094886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
A flexible polymer waveguide array structure serves as a stitch or jumper on an optical printed circuit board (OPCB). The flexible polymer waveguide array structure can be attached to the OPCB so that it can provide a chip-to-OPCB optical connection. The waveguide(s) in the flexible polymer waveguide array structure may be prefabricated before the flexible polymer waveguide array structure is attached to the OPCB. Alternatively, the waveguides may be fabricated after the flexible polymer waveguide array structure has been attached to the OPCB. The waveguide(s) may be subsequently formed using a printing process such as photolithography. As a consequence of forming the waveguide(s) after attachment of the flexible polymer waveguide array to the OPCB, the precision in the lateral alignment that is required when placing the flexible polymer waveguide array structure on the OPCB is generally significantly less than is required when the waveguide(s) are prefabricated.

Claim (Index 23):
A method for optically coupling at least a first optical waveguide located on an optical printed circuit board (OPCB) to a second optical waveguide of a surface-mounted device surface mounted on the OPCB, comprising:\n fastening a first end of a polymer substrate structure to a surface-mounted device located on the OPCB; fastening a second end of the polymer substrate structure to the OPCB; determining first and second locations at which a waveguide core is to respectively start and end so that the waveguide core optically couples the first optical waveguide to the second optical waveguide; based on the identified first and second locations, creating a mask layout pattern that is to be transferred to a photosensitive material in the polymer substrate structure; and projecting the mask layout pattern onto the photosensitive material to photolithographically form the waveguide core in the photosensitive material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15475264', '15963014', '15963030', '15459730', '14700538']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8040776135547094
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4657235704748689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7702422092467254
- Mean Citation Score: 181.384754
- Max Citation Score: 201.83633
- Similarity Product: 173.12584562211867

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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