PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "028000"]

Abstract:
A waveguide mode expander couples a smaller optical mode in a semiconductor waveguide to a larger optical mode in an optical fiber. The waveguide mode expander comprises a shoulder and a ridge. In some embodiments, the ridge of the waveguide mode expander has a plurality of stages, the plurality of stages having different widths at a given cross section.

Claim (Index 21):
The waveguide mode expander of  claim 14 , further comprising a waveguide disposed on the lower cladding layer, wherein:\n the waveguide is configured to guide an optical beam, and the shoulder portion is contiguous with the waveguide at the input end, so as to receive the optical beam from the waveguide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77778
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14722983', '15487918', '15051348', '15262937', '15588128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8259095429836629
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5371892815146742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.797037516836764
- Mean Citation Score: 333.62129
- Max Citation Score: 475.23773
- Similarity Product: 348.36559111794713

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

Dataset: test