PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963030
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
A glass substrate as a platform for a high speed optical interconnect is disclosed. An optical engine is mounted on the top surface and a polymer waveguide on the bottom surface of the glass substrate. A metal plate can be included for mechanical support. The optical engine includes conductive lines patterned into the glass and active optical devices bonded with the conductive lines. An anisotropic conductive film (ACF) connects the optical engine with a printed circuit board. The waveguide, attached parallel to the bottom surface of the glass substrate, includes a core structure, a 45 degree tapered portion at one end of the core structure, used as a light reflector. An optical fiber connector is attached to the far end of the polymer waveguide. The optical path is formed from the active optical device on the top surface, through the glass substrate and the polymer waveguide, to the optical fiber connector on the bottom surface of the glass substrate.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical interconnect apparatus, comprising:\n a glass interposer having a first surface and a second surface substantially parallel to each other; an optical engine mounted on the first surface, comprising:\n a plurality of conductive lines patterned on the first surface of the glass interposer; \n an active optical device, a driver chip, and a receiver chip bonded with the plurality of conductive lines; \n a printed circuit board including a first opening mounted over the optical engine; an anisotropic conductive film disposed on the first surface covering the plurality of conductive lines, wherein the anisotropic conductive film assembles the optical engine to the printed circuit board, wherein the optical engine is aligned to the first opening of the printed circuit board; a plurality of polymer waveguides attached on the second surface of the glass interposer, wherein the plurality of polymer waveguides each comprises: a first core structure bonded to the second surface of the glass interposer, a 45 degree tapered portion at one end of the first core structure used as a light reflector, and a cladding structure; an optical fiber connector attached to other ends of the first core structures; and an optical fiber cable connecting to the optical fiber connector; wherein an optical path is formed from the active optical device on the first surface of the glass interposer through the glass interposer to the optical fiber connector on the second surface of the glass interposer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30263
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15963014', '15963043', '15208170', '14288680', '11693357']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8187916432963892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5624962629476694
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7931621052615172
- Mean Citation Score: 290.696228
- Max Citation Score: 449.43726
- Similarity Product: 391.7574973761534

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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