PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["398", "018000"]

Abstract:
A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 10 , further comprising:\n synchronously reading a counter in the first pixel; and asynchronously reading a counter in the second pixel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14158511', '15004214', '14813159', '12178329', '12730048']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6746022275501938
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5290442376189156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.660046428557066
- Mean Citation Score: 211.779142
- Max Citation Score: 245.8833
- Similarity Product: 158.20486522673963

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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