PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870082
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "024000"]

Abstract:
A self-sanitizing surface structure configured to selectively refract light, a method of fabricating a self-sanitizing surface configured to selectively refract light, and a method of decontaminating a surface using selectively refracted light. A waveguide including a support layer below a propagating layer is positioned over a substrate as a self-sanitizing layer. In the absence of a contaminant or residue on the waveguide, UV light injected into the propagating layer is constrained within the propagating layer due to total internal reflection. When a residue is present on the self-sanitizing surface structure, light may be selectively refracted at or near the interface with the residue along the side of the waveguide to destroy the residue. The self-sanitizing surface structure may be configured to refract a suitable amount of UV light in response to a particular type of residue or application.

Claim (Index 16):
The self-sanitizing surface structure of  claim 1 , wherein the waveguide is configured to support multimode waveguiding behavior.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26154
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12764867', '14195357', '14273680', '15670734', '12392775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8059693479236962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4686704534783552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7722394584791621
- Mean Citation Score: 165.797016
- Max Citation Score: 177.73972
- Similarity Product: 126.2499159791088

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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