PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952756
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["359", "223100"]

Abstract:
Presented is a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for selectively switching optical paths. The apparatus includes a directing mirror for redirecting light from an incoming path to one of a plurality of input paths and redirecting the light from one of a plurality of output paths to an outgoing path, and a plurality of input mirrors, each one of the plurality of input mirrors operable for redirecting the light from one of the plurality of input paths to one of a plurality of transition paths. The apparatus includes a plurality of light modifying elements, each one of the light modifying elements in a corresponding transition path and a plurality of output mirrors, each one of the plurality of output mirrors operable for redirecting the light from one of the plurality of transition paths to one of a plurality of output paths.

Claim (Index 19):
A method comprising:\n (a) redirecting, by a directing mirror, light from an incoming path to one of a plurality of input paths; (b) redirecting, by one of a plurality of input mirrors, the light from the one of the plurality of input paths to one of a plurality of transition paths; (c) modifying, by one of a plurality of light modifying elements, the light along the one of the plurality of transition paths; (d) redirecting, by one of a plurality of output mirrors, the light from the one of the plurality of transition paths to one of a plurality of output paths; and (e) redirecting, by the directing mirror, the light from the one of the plurality of output paths to an outgoing path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.65854
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14966349', '11696418', '10469584', '12333800', '14373928']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7900957706115002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5622583693809833
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7673120304884485
- Mean Citation Score: 242.51288400000004
- Max Citation Score: 456.00168
- Similarity Product: 443.0404944768333

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