PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16405710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "104000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is described which uses directly modulated InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) or InGaN lasers as the transmitters for an underwater data-communication device. The receiver uses automatic gain control to facilitate performance of the apparatus over a wide-range of distances and water turbidities.

Claim (Index 45):
A system to optically transfer seismic data through an aqueous medium, comprising:\n a retrieval device comprising: a first optical transmitter to transmit light; a first optical receiver; one or more optical detectors to sense a relative angle of a second optical transmitter of an ocean bottom seismic (\u201cOBS\u201d) node; and at least one controller to select, based on a signal from the one or more optical detectors of the retrieval device, an anode in a multiple-anode photomultiplier tube and align an angular field of view of the first optical receiver with the second optical transmitter of the OBS node; the OBS node comprising: a second optical receiver comprising one or more optical detectors to detect a presence of the retrieval device and sense a relative angle of the first optical transmitter of the retrieval device; one or more controllers to adjust a transmission parameter used by the second optical transmitter to transmit light with the seismic data, and control the second optical transmitter to direct the light with the seismic data through the aqueous medium to the first optical receiver of the retrieval device; and the second optical transmitter to enter a power up state responsive to detection, by the second optical receiver, of the presence of the retrieval device, and transmit the light with the seismic data through the aqueous medium using the transmission parameter adjusted by the one or more controllers, the light with the seismic data directed towards the first optical receiver through the aqueous medium by the one or more controllers; the first optical receiver of the retrieval device to receive the light with the seismic data transmitted through the aqueous medium by the second optical transmitter of the OBS node; a photodiode of the first optical receiver that generates electrical output based on the light with the seismic data transmitted by the second optical transmitter and received by the first optical receiver; and an automatic gain control amplifier of the retrieval device that receives the electrical output from the first optical receiver and adjusts a level of the electrical output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.14634
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15334486', '15664697', '13843942', '15237106', '15664707']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7265604879045858
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6092614236268235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7148305814768096
- Mean Citation Score: 300.559116
- Max Citation Score: 333.83087
- Similarity Product: 331.1454932036674

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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