PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926155
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a first counter in which a number of light emitting occurrence for each of a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light onto an image carrier, is stored, and a processor configured to obtain a difference in the number of light emitting occurrences between a light emitting element having a larger number of light emitting occurrences and a light emitting element having a smaller number of light emitting occurrences, and to cause at least one of the light emitting elements to emit light, based on the difference.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the image carrier is a photoconductive drum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15217
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13114478', '13921800', '10974688', '14983944', '14174943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8000005273537267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491019076652455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7691023822835995
- Mean Citation Score: 140.649562
- Max Citation Score: 146.16948
- Similarity Product: 80.83341745094059

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