PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949365
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "20900R"]

Abstract:
A flashlight assembly operates with a thermal optimization circuit which automatically, over time, reduces the duty cycle of the control circuit to reduce the temperature of the LED junction, improve LED performance and increase battery life.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a flashlight comprising the steps of:\n a) providing a flashlight having a first circuit board with an LED mounted thereon, a second circuit board having a switch and a microprocessor, said first and second circuit boards being connected by a circuit extending 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 circuit; 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.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15232845', '13309702', '14592500', '14401401', '15242917']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6979616041969515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5228637314652052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6804518169237769
- Mean Citation Score: 220.765466
- Max Citation Score: 322.69693
- Similarity Product: 241.2260154497361

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