PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16273726
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["315", "307000"]

Abstract:
An automated dimming load controller automatically measures the relationship between the current draw and the dimmer setting for each light or group of lights connected to the load controller. Once measured, the relationship between the current draw and the dimmer setting can be used to enable the dimmer controller to adjust the lights between their minimum and maximum effective illumination. This automatic setting of the dimmer controller may be performed regularly to accommodate changes in performance or replacement of any of the connected lights, drivers or ballasts.

Claim (Index 4):
A method of calibrating a lighting controller for controlling one or more light assemblies comprising the steps of:\n providing the automated lighting controller of  claim 1 ; selecting one of the one or more light assemblies to be exercised by the application of varying voltage and measuring current drawn by the selected light assembly; setting the dimmer setting to 0% for the selected light assembly; measuring the current drawn by the selected light assembly; recording the current drawn as a ballast current minimum; increasing the dimmer setting by a selected amount; measuring the current drawn by the selected light assembly and determining if the measured current is greater than the ballast current minimum; if the measured current is within a tolerance value of the ballast current minimum, recording the dimmer setting as a dimmer minimum and then returning to the step of increasing the dimmer setting by a selected amount; if the measured current increases beyond the tolerance value of the current, recording the dimmer minimum as the final dimmer minimum and the current minimum as the final current minimum; recording the measured current as a ballast current maximum and the dimmer setting as ballast dimmer maximum; increasing the dimmer setting by the selected amount; measuring the current drawn by the selected light assembly and determining if the measured current is greater than the ballast current maximum; if the measured current increases beyond a tolerance value of the ballast current maximum, recording the dimmer setting as a ballast dimmer maximum and the measured current as the ballast current maximum and then returning to the step of increasing the dimmer setting by the selected amount; if the measured current is within the tolerance value of the current maximum, recording the ballast dimmer maximum as the final dimmer maximum and the ballast current minimum as the final current maximum; and controlling the dimming of the selected light assembly using the final dimmer minimum, the final current minimum, the final dimmer maximum and the final current maximum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80392
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14882907', '15664907', '15504589', '11932130', '15127048']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6765335919167783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5500874542353641
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6638889781486369
- Mean Citation Score: 260.385012
- Max Citation Score: 394.40817
- Similarity Product: 313.67613501598663

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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