PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886739
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "479000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to an OCT apparatus configured to generate to electromagnetic (e.g., optical) signals having two different polarization states. Two or more silicon optical amplifiers (SOAs) can be configured to maintain a respective polarization state in an optical input signal provided from a light source (e.g., a broadband light source). The different polarization states can be combined by an optical combiner (e.g., a polarization maintaining fiber coupler) and provided to drive a reference arm and a sample arm implemented in an OCT system.

Claim (Index 13):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the first and second polarization states exhibit linear polarization that are less than or equal to about 90 degrees apart.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13444410', '12980144', '15117145', '12572925', '14159748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6877152280035439
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092752715182701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6698712323550166
- Mean Citation Score: 242.873862
- Max Citation Score: 252.75009
- Similarity Product: 174.8557357551026

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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