PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100140
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
An apparatus that attaches to a long-gun-mounted flashlight and augments the flashlight with a secondary mechanical means of activation, so that the user can activate the flashlight in a more ergonomic, less awkward motion, with their support hand. The inventive apparatus includes a two-piece, clam-shell clamp which attaches the apparatus to the tailcap of a long-gun-mounted flashlight. A lever/paddle is attached to the two-piece clamp by way of a pivot pin, which affords the lever/paddle a swinging motion, and allows a protrusion on the underside of the paddle/lever to make slight contact with the host flashlight's tailcap activation button. When the paddle/lever is depressed, the pivot mechanism converts lateral activation pressure on the paddle/lever to forward activation pressure on the host flashlight's button, wherein activating the flashlight.

Claim (Index 1):
A mechanical apparatus that attaches to a tubular-bodied, long-gun-mounted flashlight which affords a user, the ability to activate the flashlight's tailcap button by pressing a lever or paddle with said user's support hand, whereby utilizing a system of leverage that converts the direction of mechanical actuation required to press the flashlight's tailcap button, from forward pressure that is parallel to the flashlights body, to lateral pressure that is perpendicular to the flashlight's body, such that the flashlight's inherent method of activation is augmented with a secondary method of activation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01429
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12775739', '10610470', '14401401', '15242917', '14599474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5459247458582676
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4713259286187004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5384648641343108
- Mean Citation Score: 172.076082
- Max Citation Score: 180.4242
- Similarity Product: 140.11599325289728

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

Dataset: test