PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16236590
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["315", "20900R"]

Abstract:
A flashlight assembly includes a body having a head portion at one end and an opposing tapered tail portion and a clamping assembly on a bottom side of the body. The tail portion of the body tapers rearwardly towards a tail end thereof and downwardly from an upper side towards the bottom side, such that the tail end of the tail portion merges with the bottom side of the body and forms an inclined angled surface extending from the bottom side to the top side. A switch is mounted within the inclined angled surface of the tapered tail portion, and includes a safety bail pivotably movable to selectively mechanically impede operation of the switch.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of operating a flashlight comprising the steps of:\n a) providing a battery powered flashlight having a first circuit board at a first end thereof with an LED mounted thereon, a second circuit board at a second end thereof having a switch and a microprocessor, said first and second circuit boards being connected by an electrical connection extending between the first and second ends of the flashlight therebetween, said microprocessor being configured and arranged to control operation of said LED by sending Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signals to the first circuit board through said electrical connector; b) beginning a PWM duty cycle at a percentage of the maximum duty cycle; c) starting a duty cycle timer; d) monitoring the duty cycle time; e) determining if the duty cycle time has reached a predetermined time increment; f) if no, continue monitoring duty cycle time; g) if yes, reducing the duty cycle a predetermined percentage and then determining if the duty cycle reductions have reached a predetermined number of step downs; h) if yes continue running at the present duty cycle until shut down; and i) if no, repeating steps c-g until reaching said predetermined number of step downs, and wherein after a last stepdown, said LED is powered at a prescribed steady state duty cycle until powered off or until the battery is exhausted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15232845', '15949365', '14592500', '13309702', '14401401']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7370787754520334
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5580881781866934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7191797157254993
- Mean Citation Score: 321.608596
- Max Citation Score: 419.89493
- Similarity Product: 416.03716214923134

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