PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "137000"]

Abstract:
A photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter generates an optical signal comprising a series of optical pulses. The optical signal is split into a first and a second optical path. The split optical signal is detected in the first path and then the detected optical signal is converted to a reference digital signal. The split optical signal in the second path is modulated with an input RF signal and a plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals is generated from the modulated optical signal. The plurality of demultiplexed RF-modulated optically-sampled signals is then pulse broadened, detected, and converted to a plurality of sampled-RF digital signals. The reference digital signal and the plurality of sampled-RF digital signals are digital signal processed to generate a digital representation of the input RF signal.

Claim (Index 46):
A photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter comprising:\n a) an optical transmitter that generates an optical signal comprising a series of optical pulses; b) an optical modulator having an input that is optically coupled to an output of the optical transmitter and an RF input that receives an input RF modulation signal and that generates an RF-modulated optically-sampled signal at an output; c) an optical detector having an input that is optically coupled to the output of the optical modulator and having an output that is electrically connected to an input of a passive electrical interface, an output of the passive electrical interface being electrically connected to an input of an analog-to-digital converter; and d) a digital signal processor having an input electrically connected to an output of the analog-to-digital converter, the digital signal processor generating a digital representation of the input RF modulation signal, \u2003wherein the photonically-sampled electronically-quantized analog-to-digital converter is configured such that the output of the passive electrical interface drives the input of the analog-to-digital converter with a current that achieves greater than half-scale.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10280416', '13990161', '13569063', '13248830', '13447435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5727142727061579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4910233203883516
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5645451774743774
- Mean Citation Score: 229.31588
- Max Citation Score: 250.94397
- Similarity Product: 218.1616593591428

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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