PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980352
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["283", "072000"]

Abstract:
Products, such as branding labels and currency, fabricated to include an optical security element. The optical security assembly may include a carrier film or substrate. An image element, e.g., a printed ink layer, is provided on a first surface of the carrier film/substrate, and the optical security assembly further includes an array or plurality of micro lenses on a second surface of the carrier film/substrate opposite the image element. In order to make the registration and print requirements easier, a mask is provided between the printed ink layer to define color pixels, and the printed ink layer is provided in the form of color blocks in a checkboard pattern with each block aligned with a portion of the mask and a subset of the holes or openings that define the viewable color pixels.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of fabricating an optical security element, comprising\n generating, using color separation, a plate for each of at least two colors from a digital interlaced image, wherein each of the plates comprises a set of digital data defining a number and a location of pixels of a particular color; dividing each of the plates into a plurality of equally sized sections; identifying a subset of the sections from each of the plates for use in displaying a color three dimensional (3D) or animated image, wherein a different pattern is used to identify each of the subsets of the sections and wherein the different patterns are configured such that there no co-located ones of the sections; forming a mask on a planar back surface of a lens film that includes a lens array on a surface opposite the planar back surface, wherein the mask includes holes corresponding to the location of the pixels in the identified subsets of the sections and includes opaque masking elements in areas between the holes; forming a printed image using two or more different colors of ink to print blocks corresponding to the identified subsets of the sections of each of the plates, wherein the printed blocks are arranged in sets of two or more in a checkerboard pattern; and mating the printed image with the lens film to form the optical security element with the mask sandwiched between the printed image the lens film, wherein each of the sections in the printed image are positioned underneath a differing subset of micro lenses of the lens array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 283.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15782077', '14658304', '14190592', '14282271', '14017415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7505328432171179
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5458372537496048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7300632842703666
- Mean Citation Score: 306.7442
- Max Citation Score: 466.7734
- Similarity Product: 355.08000041097404

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

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