PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "193000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a circuit is provided that includes (1) a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) strings coupled to each other in series; (2) a power supply circuit coupled to a first LED string of the plurality of LED strings; (3) a feedback circuit coupled between a second LED string of the plurality of LED strings and the power supply circuit; and (4) a current steering circuit coupled to the first LED string of the plurality of LED strings and further coupled to the second LED string of the plurality LED strings. The current steering circuit includes a plurality of switchable conductive pathways.

Claim (Index 17):
A light emitting diode (LED)-based light bulb, comprising:\n a plurality of LED strings, each LED string of the plurality of LED strings coupled in series to one of the other LED strings of the plurality of LED strings; a power supply circuit coupled to a first LED string of the plurality of LED strings; a feedback circuit coupled between a second LED string of the plurality of LED strings and the power supply circuit; and a current steering circuit coupled to a cathode end of each LED string of the plurality of LED strings; wherein the current steering circuit includes at least one switchable conductive pathway for each LED string of the plurality of LED strings, except for the last LED string in the plurality of serially coupled LED strings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55319
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14567952', '13083618', '15162289', '13717594', '14023729']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7085025637042178
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857387247496106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6862261798087571
- Mean Citation Score: 221.942918
- Max Citation Score: 229.88371
- Similarity Product: 194.0596649723232

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

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