PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["385", "007000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) spatial light modulator module, or SAW device that provides varying acoustic wave speed are disclosed. The SAW device includes a substrate of a material such as lithium niobate, and a coating layer is applied to the substrate. A SAW transducer of the device is configured to produce SAW signals that propagate with a propagation velocity around an interface between the substrate and the coating layer. The SAW signals couple light signals of a light source into modulated light signals that are emitted from the bottom face and/or edge face of the substrate. In embodiments, a frequency of RF drive signals applied to the SAW transducer in conjunction with the propagation velocity of the SAW signals produces a decrease in a SAW wavelength of the SAW signals as compared to current SAW device systems and methods.

Claim (Index 3):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the SAW transducer is formed within the coating layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96203
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15938684', '15938700', '13391762', '15167712', '15891828']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8061595828372754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5111189132323646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7766555158767844
- Mean Citation Score: 222.497498
- Max Citation Score: 269.92706
- Similarity Product: 176.40454707470772

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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