PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["343", "876000"]

Abstract:
A modal antenna array is described where modal antenna elements capable of generating multiple radiation modes are used to form array radiation patterns. Nulls in the array radiation pattern can be formed and positioned by proper modal antenna element mode selection, with these nulls used to provide interference suppression or mitigation. The shift in array radiation pattern maxima generated by modal element mode selection can be used to improve communication system link quality by optimizing array radiation pattern characteristics. Specifically, a ring or circular array configuration is described where a simplified common feed port can be implemented to feed multiple modal antenna elements used to form the array. A switch can be used to connect or disconnect one modal element from the array, with this feature providing additional unique array beam states. The modal array can be commanded via a look-up table or algorithm.

Claim (Index 14):
The modal antenna array of  claim 13 , wherein at least one of the plurality of antenna elements does not comprise a modal antenna.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 343.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15671078', '14728828', '14071560', '14662176', '13707506']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.815131827751742
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5226629732322667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7858849422997944
- Mean Citation Score: 244.99738
- Max Citation Score: 312.75687
- Similarity Product: 237.8707863331282

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

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