PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136124
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["326", "001000"]

Abstract:
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating superconducting circuits. In one aspect, an electric circuit includes: (1) a first superconducting component having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a constriction region between the first terminal and the second terminal; (2) a second superconducting component having a third terminal and a fourth terminal; and (3) a first electrically-insulating component that thermally couples the first superconducting component and the second superconducting component such that heat produced at the constriction region is transferred through the first component to the second superconducting component.

Claim (Index 9):
The circuit of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a first current source coupled to the first terminal of the first superconducting component, the first current source configured to supply a first current that exceeds a threshold current for the first superconducting component;\n wherein the first current causes the constriction region to transition from a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state; and \n wherein, in the non-superconducting state, the constriction region generates heat that is transferred to the second superconducting component via the first electrically-insulating component; and \n a second current source coupled to the third terminal of the second superconducting component, the second current source configured to supply a second current; wherein a combination of the second current and the heat transferred from the constriction region causes the second superconducting component to transition from the superconducting state to the non-superconducting state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05455
- Patent Class: 326.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16046807', '16046815', '16028288', '16012520', '16107143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6515369106660445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938193389347963
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6357651534929197
- Mean Citation Score: 235.36838000000003
- Max Citation Score: 261.0359
- Similarity Product: 199.86037197684053

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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