PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["398", "087000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for mode converters for grating couplers may include a photonic chip comprising a waveguide, a grating coupler, and a mode converter, with the waveguide being coupled to the grating coupler via the mode converter. The mode converter may include waveguide material and tapers defined by tapered regions, where the tapered regions do not have waveguide material. The photonic chip may receive an optical signal in the mode converter from the waveguide, where the received optical signal has a light profile that may be spatially deflected in the mode converter to configure a desired profile in the grating coupler. A long axis of the tapers may be parallel to a direction of travel of the optical signal. The long axis of the tapers may point towards the input waveguide of the grating couplers, which may be linear.

Claim (Index 16):
The system according to  claim 15 , wherein the gratings are curved.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34375
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15907613', '14925452', '15676197', '14612496', '14606839']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6939423236298664
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5197121908964399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6765193103565238
- Mean Citation Score: 200.622438
- Max Citation Score: 206.84123
- Similarity Product: 126.15613965559363

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

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