PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16453298
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "084000"]

Abstract:
An illumination apparatus comprises a plurality of LEDs aligned to an array of directional optical elements wherein the LEDs are substantially at the input aperture of respective optical elements. An electrode array is formed on the array of optical elements to provide at least a first electrical connection to the array of LED elements. Advantageously such an arrangement provides low cost and high efficiency from the directional LED array.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for manufacturing an illumination apparatus, the method comprising:\n forming a first monolithic array of light-emitting elements; determining a first plurality of the light-emitting elements which pass a functional criterion; determining a second plurality of the light-emitting elements which fail the functional criterion; selectively removing a plurality of the passed light-emitting elements whose relative positions in the first monolithic array correspond to desired relative positions in a desired non-monolithic array of light-emitting elements, the selectively removing being performed in a manner that preserves the relative spatial position of the selectively removed passed light-emitting elements; wherein the plurality of passed light-emitting elements that are selectively removed from the monolithic array are selected such that, in at least one direction, for at least one pair of the selectively removed passed light-emitting elements in the at least one direction, for each respective pair there is at least one respective light-emitting element that is not selected that was positioned in the monolithic array between the pair of removed passed light-emitting elements in the at least one direction; and forming a non-monolithic array of light-emitting elements with the selectively, removed passed light-emitting elements in a manner that preserves the relative spatial position of the selectively removed passed light-emitting elements, by virtue of which in the formed non-monolithic array of light-emitting elements desired relative positions of the desired array that correspond to passed light-emitting elements in the first monolithic array are occupied by passed light-emitting elements, and desired relative positions of the desired array that correspond to failed light-emitting elements in the first monolithic array are left unoccupied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63636
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16453263', '16453272', '16453258', '15382084', '13880455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8589038351997473
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5501858591257998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8280320375923527
- Mean Citation Score: 399.74274
- Max Citation Score: 419.143
- Similarity Product: 374.90278484475607

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

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