PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136885
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["362", "249060"]

Abstract:
Employing capacitors as shunts in a decorative light string can prevent the circuit from being opened when a lamp burns out or becomes loose in the socket. But manually assembling such a light string is costly and the quality of the resulting string is not assured to be high. The present disclosure introduces a shunted light string, and a method of assembling that light string that is able to be automated to ensure a consistent quality level by reducing or eliminating human workmanship issues.

Claim (Index 11):
A light string comprising:\n a plurality of lamp portions, each lamp portion comprising a wire lead capacitor, a lamp, a housing, and a pair of electrical terminals disposed within the housing,\n wherein each wire lead capacitor comprises a body, a first wire lead extending adjacent to a first side of the capacitor body and contacting a first electrical terminal of a respective pair of electrical terminals, and a second wire lead extending adjacent to a second side of the capacitor body and contacting a second electrical terminal of the respective pair of electrical terminals, and \n wherein each wire lead capacitor and lamp of each respective lamp portion are electrically in parallel with each other and form a capacitor-lamp pair; and \n a plurality of intermediate wire segments extending between the plurality of lamp portions, each respective intermediate wire segment in electrical communication with a respective capacitor-lamp pair such that the respective capacitor-lamp pair is electrically in series with other capacitor-lamp pairs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49153
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927786', '15443361', '14328221', '12437665', '12417721']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8460953420124568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5247796174845503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8139637695596662
- Mean Citation Score: 237.213406
- Max Citation Score: 369.9156
- Similarity Product: 297.2940790844678

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

Dataset: test