PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "004000"]

Abstract:
The present application discloses an optical switch, including a first optical waveguide, a second optical waveguide, and a first heater, where a place at which a distance between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide is the smallest is a junction; the first heater is adjacent to the third optical sub-waveguide; and there is a first dielectric material between the first heater and the third optical sub-waveguide, and there is a second dielectric material between the third optical sub-waveguide and the fourth optical sub-waveguide, where a thermal conductivity of the first dielectric material is greater than a thermal conductivity of the second dielectric material. The optical switch has advantages such as high heating efficiency, a small quantity of heaters, and simple control.

Claim (Index 10):
The optical switch according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide have a same height, a width of the first optical sub-waveguide is less than a width of the second optical sub-waveguide, and a width difference between the first optical sub-waveguide and the second optical sub-waveguide at a place that is at a distance from the junction is greater than a width difference between the first optical sub-waveguide and the second optical sub-waveguide at a place that is near the junction; and a width of the third optical sub-waveguide is less than a width of the fourth optical sub-waveguide, and a width difference between the third optical sub-waveguide and the fourth optical sub-waveguide at a place that is at a distance from the junction is greater than a width difference between the third optical sub-waveguide and the fourth optical sub-waveguide at a place that is near the junction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61538
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15395570', '11718580', '12987492', '15610396', '14290979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8279736037958991
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4747687356065185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7926531169769612
- Mean Citation Score: 182.53733
- Max Citation Score: 188.66057
- Similarity Product: 148.83108844620347

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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