PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "438000"]

Abstract:
An avalanche photodiode (APD) array with reduced cross talk comprises, in the illustrative embodiment, a 2D array of Geiger-mode APDs, wherein a via is formed partially through the backside (substrate) of each APD in the array, wherein the via is offset from the active region of each said APD.

Claim (Index 8):
The article of  claim 4  wherein the vias form a continuous network throughout the substrate layer of the 2D array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56757
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15269190', '14158511', '15240610', '14724270', '15602572']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9255517760253048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5743352436037596
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8904301227831503
- Mean Citation Score: 298.8171200000001
- Max Citation Score: 539.9642
- Similarity Product: 343.2948862918377

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

Dataset: test