PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900014
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["385", "024000"]

Abstract:
An optical coupling apparatus for coupling an optical fiber to a photonic chip is described. The apparatus includes a collimating microlens for collimating light from the optical fiber; a polarization splitting beam displacer for separating the light collimated by the collimating microlens into orthogonally polarized X and Y component beams; at least one focusing microlens for directing the X and Y component beams separately onto the photonic chip; and first and second surface grating couplers (SGCs) orthogonally disposed on the photonic chip and configured for operation in a same polarization state, for coupling the X and Y component beams, respectively, to the photonic chip.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the optical fiber is disposed substantially parallel to the photonic chip, the method further comprising reflecting the light exiting the optical fiber to propagate towards the photonic chip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86885
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15162765', '14230397', '15087364', '10460899', '12018097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7863511067791469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5881866932279465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7665346654240269
- Mean Citation Score: 283.239444
- Max Citation Score: 528.9225
- Similarity Product: 403.6985498084128

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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