PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "010000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for reducing dark current in a photodiode include heating a photodiode and applying an increasing reverse bias voltage to the heated photodiode to reduce a dark current generated by the photodiode.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for reducing dark current in a photodiode, comprising:\n heating a photodiode; and applying a constant reverse bias voltage to the heated photodiode to reduce a dark current generated by the photodiode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15689556', '15010910', '15467669', '15337012', '15797692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8581508232893234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4614023564471185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8184759766051029
- Mean Citation Score: 202.06346
- Max Citation Score: 208.74051
- Similarity Product: 193.6964316079438

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test