PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16095116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "002000"]

Abstract:
A single drive type optical modulator has good high-frequency characteristics and reduced wavelength chirp of the modulated light. An optical modulator is provided with a Mach-Zehnder optical waveguide including first and second optical waveguides, a buffer layer covering the first and second optical waveguides, and an electrode layer including first and second ground electrodes and a signal electrode positioned between the first and second ground electrodes in a plan view. The signal electrode has a first lower surface covering the first optical waveguide through the buffer layer, the first ground electrode has a first lower surface covering the second optical waveguide through the buffer layer and a second lower surface positioned above the first lower surface, and a gap between the signal electrode and the second ground electrode that is larger than a gap between the signal electrode and the first ground electrode.

Claim (Index 5):
The optical modulator as claimed in  claim 1 , further comprising an insulating layer provided between the buffer layer and the electrode layer, wherein\n the insulating layer has first and second openings positioned above the first and second optical waveguides, respectively, the signal electrode includes an upper part formed in the electrode layer and a lower part embedded in the first opening, the first ground electrode includes an upper part formed in the electrode layer and a lower part embedded in the second opening, and a width of the upper part of the first ground electrode is larger than a width of the lower part of the first ground electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83019
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10872404', '10527607', '12510535', '11080974', '12208696']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8315624210600875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5043137609528127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.79883755504936
- Mean Citation Score: 276.477888
- Max Citation Score: 285.7125200000001
- Similarity Product: 214.5656200059367

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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