PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "217010"]

Abstract:
A vehicle lighting apparatus may include a backing panel. The vehicle lighting apparatus may include a light guide panel (LGP) layered over the backing panel, wherein the LGP includes a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the front surface with the rear surface. The vehicle lighting apparatus may include a light source positioned along a first side surface of the plurality of side surfaces of the LGP. The vehicle lighting apparatus may include a front film layered over the front surface of the LGP, wherein the LGP includes a plurality of refraction elements that refract light emitted from the light source through the front surface of the LGP and through the front film and wherein a distribution pattern of the refraction elements creates a corresponding pattern of differing light intensities visible through the front film when illuminated by the light source.

Claim (Index 9):
A vehicle lighting apparatus, comprising:\n a light guide panel (LGP) including a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the front surface with the rear surface; a powered LED light source positioned along a first side surface of the plurality of side surfaces of the LGP such that a light produced by the LED light source enters the LGP through the first side surface; a reflector panel positioned against the rear surface of the LGP such that a portion of the light produced by the LED light source that exits the rear surface of the LGP is reflected back into the LGP by the reflector panel; a plurality of refraction elements in the LGP, wherein the plurality of refraction elements is distributed at a first density across a first portion and a second portion of the LGP and distributed at a second density across a third portion of the LGP separating the first portion and the second portion, wherein the plurality of refraction elements refract the light produced by the LED light source to exit the front surface of the LGP concentrated within an area of the front surface aligned immediately over the plurality of refraction elements; and a light diffusing panel layered over the front surface of the LGP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92727
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10700050', '15741108', '13179274', '12483406', '15536974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8168149664405872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.452918496158479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7804253194123764
- Mean Citation Score: 117.815757
- Max Citation Score: 120.57715
- Similarity Product: 88.41433342169523

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