PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773038
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["040", "544000"]

Abstract:
An illumination assembly includes a light pipe and a light engine. The light pipe has a first edge portion including a light inlet, a first surface including a first light outlet, and a second edge portion including a second light outlet. The light engine is attached to the first edge portion and includes a light source adapted to direct light into the light inlet, whereby light subsequently exits the light pipe through the first light outlet and the second light outlet. The illumination assembly can be used as part of an illuminated sign assembly to provide backlighting and downlighting.

Claim (Index 11):
An illumination assembly comprising:\n a light pipe having a first surface and at least first and second edge portions; and a light engine on the first edge portion of the light pipe and having a light source configured to emit light into the first edge portion of the light pipe; wherein the light pipe is configured such that a direction of travel of at least a first portion of the light emitted into the first edge portion is altered to extract the light through the first surface of the light pipe and at least a second portion of the light emitted into the first edge portion exits the light pipe through the second edge portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35556
- Patent Class: 40.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14683622', '13340752', '11257411', '13436719', '12900617']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7498432979777772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4619215508607484
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7210511232660743
- Mean Citation Score: 161.37279999999996
- Max Citation Score: 170.13033
- Similarity Product: 137.8048274448967

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