PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873049
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "012000"]

Abstract:
An optical sensor device includes an optical waveguide portion having a core, the core having a first refractive index, and a functional material layer coupled to the optical fiber portion, the functional material layer being made of a metal oxide material, the functional material layer being structured to have a second refractive index, the second refractive index being less than the first refractive index. The functional material layer may be a nanostructure material comprising the metal oxide material with a plurality of holes or voids formed therein such that the functional material layer is caused to have the second refractive index.

Claim (Index 16):
method of sensing an analyte in an environment in a spatially distributed manner, comprising:\n providing an optical waveguide portion having a core, the core having a first refractive index, and a functional material layer coupled to the optical waveguide portion, the functional material layer being structured to have an engineered second refractive index that is lower than the first refractive index, wherein the functional material layer is an engineered nanostructure material with a plurality of voids formed therein, wherein throughout the functional material layer a porosity of the functional material layer is uniform and a size and a shape of the voids is uniform such that the functional material layer is caused to have the engineered second refractive index, and wherein the functional material layer is a material wherein at least one of the engineered second refractive index of the functional material layer or the optical absorption of the functional material layer will change in response to a parameter relating to the analyte, and wherein the engineered second refractive index of the functional material layer and losses thereof are engineered as to permit interrogation of a desired length of the optical sensor device or a plurality of sensing locations along the optical sensor device using a spatially distributed sensing technique; and sensing a presence of or measuring the parameter relating to the analyte at a plurality of locations along the optical sensor device using the spatially distributed sensing technique.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12057446', '13357837', '12392548', '14682803', '12222392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7992956669573952
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785026603934996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7672163663010056
- Mean Citation Score: 188.373732
- Max Citation Score: 198.85179
- Similarity Product: 154.2881806183791

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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