PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777975
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
Optical component and methods for forming optical components are described. The optical component includes a substrate having a base and a fin extending from the base, a buffer layer formed on the substrate leaving a portion of the fin exposed, and a confinement layer deposited over the buffer layer and the fin. The refractive index of the substrate is greater than the refractive index of the confinement layer, and the refractive index of the confinement layer is greater than the refractive index of the buffer layer.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for fabricating an optical component, comprising:\n producing a hard mask on a substrate; hard etching the substrate with the produced hard mask to create a fin; depositing a low index material covering the fin; removing at least a portion of the deposited low index material to expose a portion of the fin; and depositing a high index material over the exposed portion of the fin to create the optical component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42105
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15217248', '14427748', '15718045', '13951240', '15689296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8034157778857899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875459504536815
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7718287951425791
- Mean Citation Score: 196.289542
- Max Citation Score: 201.19662
- Similarity Product: 138.82347273799897

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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