PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["385", "123000"]

Abstract:
Application of an electric field to nanorods can control their alignment, thus providing techniques for ultra-fast switching and optical modulators, for example those that might serve as display indicators.

Claim (Index 4):
An optical modulator comprising:\n at least one pixel comprising a plurality of nanorods and configured to receive illumination from an illumination source; and electrodes configured to apply an electric field to the nanorods sufficient to alter their orientation and thereby modulate at least one optical property of the illumination reaching the nanorods.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.06667
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15424029', '11913915', '14773195', '16017225', '15301053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7519077189952481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722115835675319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7239381054524765
- Mean Citation Score: 170.030078
- Max Citation Score: 176.79683
- Similarity Product: 141.5862403527218

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test