PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16215069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["372", "046010"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for stronger and more powerful high speed laser arrays. For example, an apparatus is disclosed that comprises an epitaxial material comprising a mesa structure in combination with an electrical waveguide, wherein the mesa structure comprises a plurality of laser regions within the mesa structure itself, each laser region of the mesa structure being electrically isolated within the mesa structure itself relative to the other laser regions of the mesa structure.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n an electrical waveguide; an epitaxial material comprising a mesa structure, wherein the mesa structure comprises a plurality of laser regions within the mesa structure itself, each laser region of the mesa structure being electrically isolated within the mesa structure itself relative to the other laser regions of the mesa structure; a substrate; a contact layer that extends beneath the mesa structure and is positioned above the substrate; and a structure separated from and around a periphery of the mesa structure, wherein the structure provides a contact that shorts the structure to the contact layer to provide a path for a current flow from the electrical waveguide to deliver energy to the laser regions; wherein the electrical waveguide is configured to provide the current flow to the laser regions and the structure via a plurality of electrical waveguide contacts, the electrical waveguide contacts comprising a first contact for electrical connection with the laser regions and a second contact for electrical connection with the structure contact; and wherein the contact layer is adapted to carry a current load from the electrical waveguide and spread current horizontally through the contact layer to the mesa structure including interior laser region portions of the mesa structure for injecting the laser regions with current to produce lasing from the laser regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15223712', '16011417', '16102572', '13077769', '11734559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8152733092748332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332472952821433
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7870707078755642
- Mean Citation Score: 266.405606
- Max Citation Score: 361.85092
- Similarity Product: 313.91937136533267

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

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