PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["040", "542000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes an LED sign that has the exterior appearance of a neon sign, but is much easier and less expensive to mass produce, and has none of the environmentally challenging elements of a neon sign. The sign has a frame that mounts to a background element, through which one or more channels are routed or molded. Flexible LED light tubes are laid into the channels and then closed off with heat shrink tubes. Because the LED light tubes are restrained in the channel, the sign takes on the desired shape that has been formed into the background, allowing the sign to be mass-produced economically for even small quantities, as there is no need for an expensive mold. The background can be 1-piece, or made from multiple pieces connected to each other in a removable fashion.

Claim (Index 11):
A modular lighted sign assembly configured to mimic the look of a classic neon sign and operable to display a message, comprising:\n a modular background structure comprising at least two distinct background units that are joinable to form a single contiguous background structure, each background unit having a front-facing surface, a rear-facing surface, and at least one elongated recess having a width dimension and a height dimension formed in the front-facing surface in the shape of a pattern, the pattern comprising a portion of the message to be displayed by the sign; at least one flexible light tube having a width dimension complimentary to the width dimension of the elongated recess such that at least a portion of the flexible light tube is sized and configured to nest within the elongated recess, the flexible light tube being maneuverable so as to conform to the shape of the pattern, the flexible light tube being operable to illuminate the message displayed by the sign; and a frame assembly including a first component configured to secure the background structure to the frame assembly and a second component configured to secure the frame assembly to a display structure; wherein upon joining the at least two distinct background units to form a single continuous background structure, the at least one recess of each distinct unit aligns with one another to form the complete message to be displayed by the sign.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67416
- Patent Class: 40.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13302235', '12904540', '11786966', '14767937', '12581713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7281977520065833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4620345862989319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7015814354358182
- Mean Citation Score: 140.53302000000002
- Max Citation Score: 142.24532
- Similarity Product: 108.45334740352632

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