PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988379
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "049000"]

Abstract:
A photonic chip includes a connecting means, a substrate, and a waveguide layer. The photonic integrated waveguide and the optical fiber each have a front end portion. The connecting means includes a groove configured to receive the front end portion of the optical fiber. The groove is essentially U-shaped in its cross section, and the groove has a bottom surface and two inner side surfaces. A least one of both inner side surfaces of the U-shaped groove has a coating of an elastic material configured to hold in place the optical fiber after it is inserted into the groove. The invention further relates to an optical device which includes a photonic chip and an optical fiber, as well as a method or production of such a photonic chip.

Claim (Index 1):
A photonic chip comprising a connecting means for aligning and connecting an optical fiber to a photonic integrated waveguide provided on the photonic chip,\n (a) wherein the photonic chip at least comprises a substrate and a waveguide layer, which is provided on or within an upper portion of the substrate and which defines the photonic integrated waveguide, (b) wherein the photonic integrated waveguide and the optical fiber each have a front end portion, each front end portion having an optical axis and a front surface, (c) wherein the connecting means comprises a groove configured to receive the front end portion of the optical fiber, in such a way that front surfaces of the photonic integrated waveguide and the optical fiber are positioned opposite each other and that the optical axes of the photonic integrated waveguide and the optical fiber are essentially aligned with each other, and (d) wherein the groove is essentially U-shaped in its cross section, the groove has a bottom surface and two inner side surfaces, and at least one of the both inner side surfaces of the U-shaped groove has a coating of an elastic material configured to hold in place the optical fiber after it is inserted into the groove.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10651372', '16324118', '13370886', '10310604', '15606282']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8192997750979196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795869141780322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7853284890059309
- Mean Citation Score: 215.370174
- Max Citation Score: 226.59363
- Similarity Product: 184.36199412993903

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

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