PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185010
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "033000"]

Abstract:
An optical article employing a lenticular lens array associated with a layer of optically transmissive material and illuminated by a light source. The layer of optically transmissive material includes discrete microscopic surface relief features formed in a surface opposite to the lenses forming the lenticular lens array. The discrete microscopic surface relief features deflect light propagating through the layer of optically transmissive material and direct the light out of the layer. The optical article may be further associated with a reflective surface and/or a photoabsorptive layer configured to partially transmit and partially absorb and convert light.

Claim (Index 25):
A light distribution system, comprising:\n a flexible optically transmissive sheet having a first broad-area surface and an opposing second broad-area surface; an artificial light source illuminating the optically transmissive sheet; a plurality of rounded ridges formed in the first broad-area surface and aligned parallel to an edge of the optically transmissive sheet; a plurality of discrete microscopic protrusions formed in the second broad-area surface and distributed over an area of the second broad-area surface according to a predetermined two-dimensional pattern; each of the plurality of discrete microscopic protrusions being disposed in optical communication with respect to at least one of the plurality of rounded ridges; a planar reflective surface extending parallel to the optically transmissive sheet and disposed in an energy receiving relationship with respect to the optically transmissive sheet; wherein a cumulative area of the plurality of discrete microscopic protrusions is substantially less than the areas of each of the first and second broad-area surfaces, wherein a thickness of the optically transmissive sheet is between a fraction of a millimeter and several millimeters, and wherein a width and/or length of the optically transmissive sheet is 100 millimeters or more.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96078
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13345738', '14181439', '15838061', '13351800', '15442645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8365024453269666
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5201845918469007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.80487065997896
- Mean Citation Score: 306.43851400000005
- Max Citation Score: 346.0418
- Similarity Product: 304.50910959007734

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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