PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939619
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "438000"]

Abstract:
Example embodiments relate to controlling detection time in photodetectors. An example embodiment includes a device. The device includes a substrate. The device also includes a photodetector coupled to the substrate. The photodetector is arranged to detect light emitted from a light source that irradiates a top surface of the device. A depth of the substrate is at most 100 times a diffusion length of a minority carrier within the substrate so as to mitigate dark current arising from minority carriers photoexcited in the substrate based on the light emitted from the light source.

Claim (Index 27):
The device of  claim 21 ,\n wherein the band structure comprises a potential well, and wherein the potential well is configured to prevent minority carriers photoexcited in the substrate from reaching a depletion region of the photodetector due to diffusion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15636821', '12837444', '14756417', '15442999', '15099492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9233975740318696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033556857670471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8813933852053873
- Mean Citation Score: 212.078936
- Max Citation Score: 226.49104
- Similarity Product: 148.11235217369082

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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