PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16048687
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "014000"]

Abstract:
Unlike most MEMS device configurations which simply switch between two positions in many optical devices the state of a MEMS mirror is important in all transition positions. It may determine the characteristics of an optical delay line system and by that an optical coherence tomography system in one application and in another the number of wavelength channels and the dynamic wavelength switching capabilities in the other. The role of the MEMS is essential and it is responsible for altering the paths of the different wavelengths in either device. It would be beneficial to improve the performance of such MEMS and thereby the performance of the optical components and optical systems they form part of. The inventors have established improvements to the design and implementation of such MEMS mirrors as well as optical waveguide technologies to in-plane optical processing as well as the mid infrared for optical spectroscopy.

Claim (Index 2):
The device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the second surface of the first planar waveguide has the predetermined geometrical shape in the plane parallel to the substrate and reflects optical signals propagating within the first planar waveguide within the predetermined wavelength range; the predetermined geometrical shape is an arc of circle; the facet and front surface have a common centre point for their respective arcs of circles but different radii to define a gap between the facet and front surface; the second surface has a predetermined radius; and the optical circuit comprises a second planar waveguide which has the facet of the optical circuit formed within it and a plurality of channel optical waveguides coupled to the second planar waveguide wherein each of channel waveguide of the plurality of channel optical waveguides is coupled to the second planar waveguide at a predetermined position such that it is substantially at the predetermined radius from the second surface for a predetermined rotation of the R-MEMS.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 57.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15124259', '15124198', '15504149', '15992632', '15561191']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8462585405448746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5844395852601882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.820076645016406
- Mean Citation Score: 339.642078
- Max Citation Score: 506.95572
- Similarity Product: 428.7904818389797

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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