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 34):
The system according to  claim 33 , wherein the receiver comprises:\n an input port for inputting the input optical signal; a polarization beam splitter for splitting the input optical signal into first and second polarized components; a local oscillator for generating first and second oscillator components; a first hybrid mixer for generating the first and second optical component signals, which are phase differentiated, from the first polarized component and the first oscillator component; and a second hybrid mixer for generating the third and fourth optical component signals, which are phase differentiated, from the second polarized component and the second oscillator component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98361
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931796', '13505199', '14577007', '13730246', '13696516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7005875252290672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5749343603490917
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6880222087410697
- Mean Citation Score: 265.709432
- Max Citation Score: 422.99628
- Similarity Product: 392.82982526328567

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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