PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16450911
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["250", "227110"]

Abstract:
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating superconducting photon detectors. In one aspect, a photon detector includes: (1) a first waveguide configured to guide photons from a photon source; (2) a second waveguide that is distinct and separate from the first waveguide and optically-coupled to the first waveguide; and (3) a superconducting component positioned adjacent to the second waveguide and configured to detect photons within the second waveguide.

Claim (Index 12):
A directional coupler device, comprising:\n a substrate; a first photonic waveguide including a first region and a second region that is distinct from and mutually exclusive to the first region of the first photonic waveguide,\n wherein the first region of the first photonic waveguide has a linear shape with a first end and a second end that is opposite to the first end of the first region of the first photonic waveguide; and \n wherein the first region of the first photonic waveguide is configured to receive one or more photons travelling from the first end of the first region of the first photonic waveguide toward the second end of the first region of the first photonic waveguide; \n a second photonic waveguide that is distinct and separate from the first photonic waveguide, the second photonic waveguide including a first region and a second region that is distinct from and mutually exclusive to the first region of the second photonic waveguide;\n wherein the first region of the second photonic waveguide is linear in shape and positioned adjacent to the first region of the first photonic waveguide; \n wherein the first region of the second photonic waveguide is a first distance from the first photonic waveguide, and the second region of the second photonic waveguide is a second distance to the first photonic waveguide, that is greater than the first distance; \n wherein the first region of the second photonic waveguide has a first end and a second end that is opposite to the first end of the first region of the second photonic waveguide; and \n whereby at least a subset of the one or more photons transmitted from the first end of the first region of the first photonic waveguide toward the second end of the first region of the first photonic waveguide is transferred to the second photonic waveguide; and \n a superconducting detector component having a first portion and a second portion that is distinct from and mutually exclusive to the first portion of the superconducting component;\n wherein the first portion of the superconducting detector component is linear in shape and positioned adjacent to the first region of the second photonic waveguide; \n wherein the first portion of the superconducting detector component spans the first region of the second photonic waveguide; and \n whereby at least a portion of the first portion of the superconducting detector component transitions from a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state in response to one or more incident photons transmitted from the first waveguide; \n wherein the first photon waveguide and the second photon waveguide are integrated on the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7451
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14095516', '16135908', '13633647', '16028293', '15325508']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6987452592147078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5034046819675853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6792112014899955
- Mean Citation Score: 229.83920000000003
- Max Citation Score: 279.58575
- Similarity Product: 206.3515579006969

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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