PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102572
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["372", "050124"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for laser apparatuses. In an example embodiment, the laser apparatus comprises (1) a laser-emitting epitaxial structure having a front and a back, wherein the laser-emitting epitaxial structure is back-emitting and comprises a plurality of laser regions within a single mesa structure, each laser region having an aperture through which laser beams are controllably emitted, (2) a micro-lens array located on the back of the laser-emitting epitaxial structure, wherein each micro-lens of the micro-lens array is aligned with a laser region of the laser-emitting epitaxial structure, and (3) a non-coherent beam combiner positioned to non-coherently combine a plurality of laser beams emitted from the apertures.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the micro-lens array is a photolithographic micro-lens array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98387
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16011417', '15223712', '12200127', '15351326', '12806904']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7765570774608729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.531115143132335
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.752012884028019
- Mean Citation Score: 232.261294
- Max Citation Score: 319.21017
- Similarity Product: 237.9151198887563

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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