PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["257", "072000"]

Abstract:
A multiple arrayed parallel nanowire device includes one or more arrays connected in series, wherein each array includes a plurality of narrow nanowires flanked by one or more wide nanowires, a top electrode, an applied current, a bottom ground electrode, and one or more lateral electrodes where one or more currents or one or more probing voltages can be applied to detect voltage changes in each array. The device detects single and multiple photons without destroying superconductivity in all the nanowires in the array and is thus capable of remaining sensitive to subsequent photon impacts. Moreover, the device can resolve the location of each photon impact.

Claim (Index 13):
A multiple nanowire device comprising:\n a substrate; two or more nanowires connected in series; a source electrode and a ground electrode connected to the two or more nanowires such that applied current flows from the source electrode through the two or more nanowires to the ground electrode; a lateral electrode connected to each nanowire connected in series such that a current and a probing voltage can be applied to measure voltage changes across each nanowire connected in series; wherein the two or more nanowires connected in series is configured to detect a photon impact at each nanowire; wherein the photon impact causes the impacted nanowire to lose superconductivity, and causes the remaining one or more nanowires connected in series to the impacted nanowire to retain sensitivity to photon impacts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69118
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14095516', '12125043', '13506857', '14983139', '13117515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9067363613117924
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4735681957002409
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8634195447506373
- Mean Citation Score: 188.260596
- Max Citation Score: 195.80872
- Similarity Product: 156.0979226730394

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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