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 17):
The control device of  claim 16 , further comprising:\n a faceplate configured to be attached to the control module, the faceplate having an opening configured to receive the button when the faceplate is attached to the control module; wherein a gap is formed between the button and the faceplate, and the diffuser portion is configured to conduct the light emitting by the light source to illuminate the gap around the button.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0678
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15134299', '15165559', '15583819', '16174545', '11724919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7125649348015721
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795566429749111
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.689264105618906
- Mean Citation Score: 199.498202
- Max Citation Score: 223.62764
- Similarity Product: 187.44265578844548

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

Dataset: test