PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16080006
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["385", "012000"]

Abstract:
Pressure sensing having 2-D resolution is provided by an array of optical waveguides having wave-guide intersections (e.g., intersecting rows and columns). Pressure induced cross-coupling between intersecting wave-guides is enhanced by including mechanical structures at each intersection that enhance local waveguide bending. For example, such structures can be rigid rings around the wave-guide intersections.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical waveguide pressure sensor array comprising:\n two or more row optical waveguides; two or more column optical waveguides, wherein the row optical waveguides and the column optical waveguides are arranged in a planar array to define crossing sensors, wherein each crossing sensor includes one of the row waveguides in contact with one of the column waveguides at an intersection point; wherein each crossing sensor further includes a mechanical structure configured to enhance waveguide bending when pressure is applied to the crossing sensor; wherein the optical waveguide pressure sensor array is configured to sense pressure by providing light to the row optical waveguides and measuring light coupled to the column optical waveguides, or vice versa.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.22449
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14165554', '10384503', '10780799', '14579948', '12225708']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.762255144386667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4796491490835967
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.73399454485636
- Mean Citation Score: 154.234124
- Max Citation Score: 161.93652
- Similarity Product: 116.89499304613352

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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