PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["349", "124000"]

Abstract:
Devices and method of fabrication a liquid crystal electro-optic device which is based on light scattering and diffraction from a multiple domain field-effect liquid crystal configuration are provided. The multiple domains include random liquid crystal alignment directions fabricated by photo-alignment and have sizes ranging from sub-micrometer to several micrometers. The random alignment in the plane can be of two or more directions whereas the pretilt angle can vary between zero and 90°. The randomness of the planar directions of the liquid crystal director can be generated by a designed photo mask in combination with uniaxial photo-alignment.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of fabricating a multi-domain alignment structure, the method comprising:\n applying a photo-alignment layer to a substrate; aligning the entire photo-alignment layer in a planar direction by exposing the photo-alignment layer to polarized light through a photomask in a first planar azimuthal direction under a first zenithal angle of incident polarized light between 0\u00b0 and 90\u00b0; and removing the photomask and exposing at least a portion of the photo-alignment layer to polarized light in a second planar azimuthal direction under a second zenithal angle, wherein either the second planar azimuthal direction is different than the first azimuthal direction or the second zenithal angle is different than the first zenithal angle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51515
- Patent Class: 349.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14315319', '10390767', '12440074', '14440493', '14129481']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8225911804392952
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805594665976071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7883880090551265
- Mean Citation Score: 178.39209599999995
- Max Citation Score: 199.38596
- Similarity Product: 147.01143546726232

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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