PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988379
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "049000"]

Abstract:
A photonic chip includes a connecting means, a substrate, and a waveguide layer. The photonic integrated waveguide and the optical fiber each have a front end portion. The connecting means includes a groove configured to receive the front end portion of the optical fiber. The groove is essentially U-shaped in its cross section, and the groove has a bottom surface and two inner side surfaces. A least one of both inner side surfaces of the U-shaped groove has a coating of an elastic material configured to hold in place the optical fiber after it is inserted into the groove. The invention further relates to an optical device which includes a photonic chip and an optical fiber, as well as a method or production of such a photonic chip.

Claim (Index 12):
The optical device of  claim 10 , wherein the front end portion of the optical fiber has a tapered front end portion and/or a lensed tip of the front end portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10651372', '16324118', '13370886', '10310604', '15606282']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8352469308137642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894680674233161
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8006690444747194
- Mean Citation Score: 215.370174
- Max Citation Score: 226.59363
- Similarity Product: 169.12213784760831

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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