PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021878
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["362", "511000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle indicator lighting assembly or other lighting device for providing dual-color outputs in a lit state and an unlit state, respectively. Specifically, a color of a lighting device may be controlled such that an unlit state may communicate a desired color corresponding to a surface of a component of the lighting device. For instance, the lighting device can include a light guide having one or more decoupling regions and a bezel having one or more effecting facets arranged relative to the light guide. The light guide may be optically-coupled to a light source. The one or more effecting facets may be designed such that, when the lighting device is not illuminated by the light source, a color of a surface of the one or more effecting facets is displayed to an observer in a trailing vehicle by reflection of ambient light from an environment external to the vehicle.

Claim (Index 8):
A lighting device of an automotive vehicle, comprising:\n a light guide, optically-coupled to a light source, having one or more decoupling regions disposed on a rear surface of the light guide, a front surface of the guide facing an external environment of the automotive vehicle; and a bezel arranged relative to the rear surface of the light guide such that a front surface of the bezel is immediately adjacent the rear surface of the light guide, the bezel including one or more effecting facets disposed on the front surface of the bezel, each effecting facet of the one or more effecting facets including a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface of each effecting facet of the one or more effecting facets of the bezel is a metallized surface having a pre-determined reflectivity, a passive surface of each of the one or more decoupling regions disposed on the rear surface of the light guide is collinear with the second surface of a corresponding one of the one or more effecting facets disposed on the front surface of the bezel, and light rays emitted by the light source and refracted through the rear surface of the light guide are reflected by the one or more effecting facets disposed on the front surface of the bezel to produce reflected emitted light rays, the reflected emitted light rays communicating, to the external environment of the automotive vehicle, a pre-determined color corresponding to a color of the second surface of each effecting facet of the one or more effecting facets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27778
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15987990', '13535597', '15588013', '13345944', '15940252']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8235073302496405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915853392399635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7903151311486729
- Mean Citation Score: 212.499056
- Max Citation Score: 243.98506
- Similarity Product: 185.60923381186248

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

Dataset: test