PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16045633
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["372", "036000"]

Abstract:
Methods, devices and systems are described for enabling a series-connected, single chip vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array. In one aspect, the single chip includes one or more non-conductive regions one the conductive layer to produce a plurality of electrically separate conductive regions. Each electrically separate region may have a plurality of VCSEL elements, including an anode region and a cathode region connected in series. The chip is connected to a sub-mount with a metallization pattern, which connects each electrically separate region on the conductive layer in series. In one aspect, the metallization pattern connects the anode region of a first electrically separate region to the cathode region of a second electrically separate region. The metallization pattern may also comprise cuts that maintain electrical separation between the anode and cathode regions on each conductive layer region, and that align with the etched regions.

Claim (Index 19):
A system for connecting vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays in series, the system comprising:\n a die, including:\n one or more non-conductive regions creating a plurality of electrically separate conductive regions within a conductive layer on a semiconductor substrate; and \n a plurality of series-connected VCSEL elements within each electrically separate conductive region, wherein the plural of series-connected VCSEL elements comprise an anode region and a cathode region; and \n a sub-mount connected to the semiconductor substrate, the sub-mount comprises a metallization pattern which connects the anode region on a first electrically separate conductive region to the cathode region of a second electrically separate conductive region, maintains electrical separation between electrically separate conductive regions on the conductive layer, and electrically separates the anode region and the cathode region within each electrically separate conductive region on the conductive cathode layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 87.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18056
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15040975', '15944955', '14166664', '15439730', '13865143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8180903893523559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4954136348668628
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7858227139038065
- Mean Citation Score: 230.150378
- Max Citation Score: 239.62431
- Similarity Product: 181.48993273524465

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

Dataset: test