PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864666
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["385", "003000"]

Abstract:
An optical transmission apparatus includes: a Mach-Zehnder modulator including a first arm waveguide having electrodes; and a driver driving the Mach-Zehnder modulator in response to a pulse amplitude modulated signal, the driver including driving circuits connected to the respective electrodes and each of the driving circuits including a comparator receiving the pulse amplitude modulated signal.

Claim (Index 7):
A semiconductor integrated driving circuit comprising:\n an input configured to receive a pulse amplitude modulated signal having amplitude levels indicating respective symbols on an optical signal to be produced by a Mach-Zehnder modulator having a plurality of modulation electrodes; a plurality of driving circuits connected to the input and generating a plurality of drive signals; and a plurality of outputs connected to the plurality of driving circuits and configured to supply the plurality of drive signals to the plurality of modulation electrodes of the Mach-Zehnder modulator, the plurality of driving circuits including a plurality of comparators receiving the pulse amplitude modulated signal from the input.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63889
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14879361', '15660618', '12065218', '12065278', '14394313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8017416004272702
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5114059442087574
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7727080348054188
- Mean Citation Score: 276.117614
- Max Citation Score: 294.11313
- Similarity Product: 233.9414647444171

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

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