PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["398", "136000"]

Abstract:
A skew compensation apparatus and method. In an optical system that uses optical signals, skew may be generated as the optical signals are processed from an input optical signal to at least two electrical signals representative of the phase-differentiated optical signals. A compensation of the skew is provided by including an optical delay line in the path of the optical signal that does not suffer the skew (e.g., that serves as the time base for the skew measurement). The optical delay line introduces a delay T skew  equal to the delay suffered by the optical signal that is not taken as the time base. The two signals are thereby corrected for skew.

Claim (Index 33):
The system according to  claim 32 , wherein the input optical signal also comprises third and fourth optical component signals;\n wherein the receiver is also configured to convert the third and fourth optical component signals into third and fourth electrical component signals; wherein each of the third and fourth electrical component signals are subject to a different timing delay relative to the first electrical component signal caused by the transmitter, the optical medium and the receiver; and further comprising:\n a second skew compensation element consisting of a waveguide optical delay line, consisting of a single fixed length of waveguide configured to apply a single fixed predetermined compensation timing delay to the third optical component signal, to at least partially compensate for the timing delay in the third electrical component signal. \n a third skew compensation element consisting of a waveguide optical delay line, consisting of a single fixed length of waveguide configured to apply a single fixed predetermined compensation timing delay to the fourth optical component signal, to at least partially compensate for the timing delay in the fourth electrical component signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98361
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931796', '13505199', '14577007', '13730246', '13696516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6782452117074336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5664711336340525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6670678039000955
- Mean Citation Score: 265.709432
- Max Citation Score: 422.99628
- Similarity Product: 325.2755392207289

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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