PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "110000"]

Abstract:
A flashlight for use with a pistol, the pistol having a trigger guard and a mounting rail. The flashlight includes an elongated housing having a spring arm clamping mechanism for mounting to the mounting rail, a light source at one end thereof, and paddle switches at an opposing end.

Claim (Index 8):
A flashlight comprising:\n a housing having a light source disposed at a first forward end thereof and further having a switching mechanism disposed at a second rearward end thereof, said housing having a longitudinal axis extending between said first and second ends thereof; said switching mechanism including an outward facing switch and a paddle actuator, said paddle actuator having a perpendicular projection with an outwardly facing pad surface at one end thereof, said paddle actuator further having an stop arm portion at an opposing end thereof, said paddle actuator being mounted on a hinge pin which has an axis extending perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said housing, whereby said stop portion extends rearwardly from said hinge pin in a plane which runs parallel to said longitudinal axis of said housing, said perpendicular projection extending inwardly from said paddle portion adjacent to said switch, said paddle actuator being hingeably movable about said hinge pin whereby said paddle portion pivots inwardly and said perpendicular projection of said actuator arm portion pivots forwardly to engage said outward facing switch, wherein said switching mechanism further comprises a circuit board extending perpendicular to said longitudinal axis, said switch being located on a support disposed perpendicular to said circuit board.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54286
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15242917', '14599474', '14401401', '15232845', '12413997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8331819954754263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5661514758366294
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8064789435115466
- Mean Citation Score: 327.57601199999993
- Max Citation Score: 443.92645
- Similarity Product: 431.1055365522564

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