PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["049", "049000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle barrier gate arm is pivotable between an upward and downward position. The gate arm has an exterior wall and one or more recessed light housings within visor channels. Each light housing may contain a light system such as an LED light strip or a light rope. The light housing is positioned at the medial end of a visor channel. The visor channel is defined by two opposing, parallel visor channel walls. Each channel wall has a retaining fin extending perpendicularly from it into the visor channel, thereby forming an aperture in the light housing. The light housing is situated between the retaining fins and a backwall. The retaining fins and the channel walls form crooks within the upper and lower corners of the visor channels. The visor channels and the crooks shade the light housing and create dark regions of the channels. The shaded channels provide a stronger contrast between illuminated and non-illuminated visor channels, allowing an observer to better determine whether the LED lights strips, which often act as signals, are activated or are not activated.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle barrier gate system comprising;\n an elongate gate arm defined by an exterior wall and having a length; an elongate visor channel extending along the length of the gate arm and defined by an upper channel wall and a lower channel wall and a backwall; a recessed upper retaining fin extending perpendicularly from the upper channel wall into the channel; an opposing recessed lower retaining fin extending perpendicularly from the lower channel wall into the channel, coplanar with upper retaining fin; a recessed light strip housing defined by the backwall, the upper channel wall, the lower channel wall and the upper and lower retaining fins; an aperture in the light housing between the opposing upper and lower retaining fins; wherein the upper retaining fin and the upper channel wall meet at a right angle, forming an upper crook between the upper retaining fin and the exterior wall; wherein the lower retaining fin and the lower channel wall meet at a right angle, forming a lower crook between the lower retaining fin and the exterior wall; an LED light strip within the recessed light strip housing capable of emitting light through the aperture between opposing upper and lower retaining fins; and, a housing pivotally coupled to a proximal end of the gate arm, the housing having a control system, a power supply and an actuator to selectively pivot the gate arm between a horizontal position and a vertical position; wherein the region of the visor channel extending from the exterior wall to the opposing upper and lower retaining fins is not occupied by any reflective objects and has no reflective surfaces within it.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02083
- Patent Class: 49.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14470134', '14880823', '13803093', '14514468', '10958001']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.78948157039426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4773546157607383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7582688749309079
- Mean Citation Score: 162.48369
- Max Citation Score: 170.55025
- Similarity Product: 138.7991976712644

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