PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926155
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a first counter in which a number of light emitting occurrence for each of a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light onto an image carrier, is stored, and a processor configured to obtain a difference in the number of light emitting occurrences between a light emitting element having a larger number of light emitting occurrences and a light emitting element having a smaller number of light emitting occurrences, and to cause at least one of the light emitting elements to emit light, based on the difference.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming method according to  claim 11 , wherein the light emitting element having the smaller number of light emitting occurrences is the light emitting element having the smallest number of light emitting occurrences amongst the plurality of light emitting elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13114478', '13921800', '10974688', '14983944', '14174943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8039217947925299
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4680743661212994
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7703370519254069
- Mean Citation Score: 140.649562
- Max Citation Score: 146.16948
- Similarity Product: 99.99214130703449

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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