PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
An apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; an absorption layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate, the absorption layer including a photodiode region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, where the second control signal is different from the first control signal.

Claim (Index 8):
An optical apparatus comprising:\n an absorption layer comprising a photodetection region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers in response to the absorbed photons; one or more first switches each controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches each configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches each controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches each configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, wherein the second control signal is different from the first control signal, wherein the one or more first switches each comprise:\n a first well region having a first polarity; \n a first doped region having a second polarity opposite to the first polarity, at least a portion of the first doped region having the second polarity being formed in the first well region having the first polarity, and the first doped region having the second polarity being controlled by the first control signal; and \n a second doped region having the first polarity coupled to a first readout integrated circuit; and \n wherein the one or more second switches each comprise:\n a second well region having the first polarity; \n a third doped region having the second polarity, at least a portion of the third doped region being formed in the second well region, and the third doped region being controlled by the second control signal; and \n a fourth doped region having the first polarity coupled to a second readout integrated circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15338660', '16146656', '15908447', '15248618', '15803591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.693869426606679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5207031677309213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6765528007191033
- Mean Citation Score: 297.11160600000005
- Max Citation Score: 332.44562
- Similarity Product: 297.184228710357

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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