PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138353
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["398", "083000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer including a wavelength selective switch configured to filter wavelengths of an optical signal; and an optical equalizer, coupled to the wavelength selective switch, configured to equalize the optical signal to mitigate optical filtering effects caused by the wavelength selective switch.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the optical equalizer is a liquid crystal on silicon based optical equalizer having a loss of less than 7 dB.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60606
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15233434', '13310367', '13310323', '15392227', '12380808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7253277145144588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6036792748355608
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.713162870546569
- Mean Citation Score: 406.23748400000005
- Max Citation Score: 532.9972
- Similarity Product: 391.1137869251967

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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