PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["398", "116000"]

Abstract:
Feeding a plurality of antenna elements of an array antenna, involves receiving at a photonic substrate at least one transmit modulated optical carrier (TMOC) signal. The TMOC signal is communicated to an array level photonic integrated circuit (ALPIC) disposed on the photonic substrate where one or more optical processing operations are performed involving the TMOC signal to obtain a plurality of element-level optical carrier (ELOC) signals. These ELOC signals are communicated from the ALPIC to a plurality of conversion locations distributed on the photonic substrate. Photodetectors respectively provided at the conversion locations convert each of the ELOC signals to an element-level modulated radio frequency (ELMRF) signal. The ELMRF signal are coupled from each photodetector respectively to one of the plurality of antenna elements.

Claim (Index 33):
An optical interposer for a plurality of antenna elements of an array antenna, comprising:\n a photonic substrate on which is disposed:\n a plurality of optical modulators disposed at a plurality of conversion locations distributed on the photonic substrate, each optical modulator configured to convert a receive element-level modulated radio frequency (ELMRF) signal to a receive element-level optical carrier (ELOC) signal; \n a plurality of RF couplings provided to communicate the receive ELMRF signals respectively from a plurality of antenna elements to the plurality of optical modulators; \n a plurality of element-level optical waveguides respectively configured to optically communicate the plurality of receive element-level optical carrier (ELOC) signals from the plurality of optical modulators to an array-level photonic integrated circuit (ALPIC), the ALPIC configured to perform at least one optical processing operation on the plurality of receive ELOC signals; \n an optical combiner configured to combine the plurality of receive ELOC signals to form a receive modulated optical carrier (RMOC) signal; and \n an optical interface configured to communicate the RMOC signal to a remote optical signal receiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1746
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15869870', '15865779', '12176071', '15399563', '12176114']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6775697374026072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.526071288072847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6624198924696312
- Mean Citation Score: 241.528564
- Max Citation Score: 301.80933
- Similarity Product: 239.8514804001939

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

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