PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002882
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "022000"]

Abstract:
A steerable optical transmit and receive terminal includes a MEMS-based N×1 optical switching network. Each optical switch in the switching network uses an electrostatic MEMS structure to selectively position a translatable optical grating close to or far from an optical waveguide. In the close (“ON”) position, light couples between the translatable optical grating and the optical waveguide, whereas in the far (“OFF”) position, no appreciable light couples between the translatable optical grating and the optical waveguide. The translatable optical grating is disposed at or near a surface of the optical switching network. Thus, the translatable optical grating emits light into, or receives light from, free space. The steerable optical transmit and receive terminal also includes a lens and can steer a free space optical beam in a direction determined by which port of the N×1 optical switching network is ON.

Claim (Index 21):
A partitioned optical switch according to  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of optical switch arrays defines a surface, and each optical switch of each respective plurality of optical switches is configured to optically couple between the respective waveguide and space beyond the surface of the plurality of optical switch arrays, when the respective optical switch is in the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28571
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15844527', '14338408', '10493107', '14239771', '12226453']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8013624124995081
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5350876114843968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7747349323979971
- Mean Citation Score: 242.632042
- Max Citation Score: 354.30585
- Similarity Product: 285.69097170943024

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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