PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179502
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "051000"]

Abstract:
A flexible waveguide structure including a waveguide on a flexible substrate, both having transparent windows in the mid-infrared range, may serve as a photonic chemical sensor for measuring characteristic absorptions of analytes brought in physical contact with the waveguide. Such a sensor may, in accordance with some embodiments, be formed by an aluminum-nitride waveguide on a borosilicate substrate.

Claim (Index 14):
A chemical sensing method comprising:\n applying a chemical sample to an exposed section of a waveguide sensor formed on a flexible borosilicate substrate, the waveguide sensor and substrate both being transparent to light over an operating wavelength range, the operating wavelength range comprising a range from about 2.5 \u03bcm to about 3.4 \u03bcm; coupling light into the waveguide sensor at a first end thereof; measuring light exiting the waveguide sensor at a second end thereof at a detector; and detecting one or more analytes comprised in the chemical sample based on detection, in the light existing the waveguide sensor at the second end and measured at the detector, of one or more characteristic absorptions at one or more respective wavelengths within the operating wavelength range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45455
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14076655', '12989024', '13375433', '16079325', '14302551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6671985004312894
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4791995070661553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.648398601094776
- Mean Citation Score: 145.747896
- Max Citation Score: 165.25616000000005
- Similarity Product: 113.30896812637332

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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