PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16252195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["315", "291000"]

Abstract:
A control device for controlling power delivered to an electrical load may illuminate an area around a button of the control device, such as a gap formed between the button and an opening of a faceplate of the control device. The control device may illuminate the gap to provide a nightlight feature, to provide feedback (e.g., a status of the electrical load), and/or to indicate a selected preset. The button may have a cap portion that may be actuated by a user and a diffuser portion that may contact a rear surface of the cap portion and may conduct light emitted by an internal light source to illuminate the gap around the button.

Claim (Index 12):
The control device of  claim 8 , wherein the diffuser portion extends beyond a front surface of the faceplate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0678
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15134299', '15165559', '15583819', '16174545', '11724919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7343178078800924
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924136952127406
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7101273966133572
- Mean Citation Score: 199.498202
- Max Citation Score: 223.62764
- Similarity Product: 166.92444084132197

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test