PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953812
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "307000"]

Abstract:
A load control device for controlling the intensity of a lighting load, such as a light-emitting diode (LED) light source, may include a power converter circuit operable to receive a rectified AC voltage and to generate a DC bus voltage, a load regulation circuit operable to receive the bus voltage and to control the magnitude of a load current conducted through the lighting load, and a control circuit operatively coupled to the load regulation circuit for pulse width modulating or pulse frequency modulating the load current to control the intensity of the lighting load to a target intensity. The control circuit may control the intensity of the lighting load by pulse width modulating the load current when the target intensity is above a predetermined threshold and control the intensity of the lighting load by pulse frequency modulating the load current when the target intensity is below the predetermined threshold.

Claim (Index 4):
The LED driver of  claim 3 , wherein the control circuit is configured to fade the intensity of the LED light source from an initial intensity greater than the predetermined threshold over a period of time by decreasing the on time of the gate voltage when the target intensity is greater than the predetermined threshold and decreasing the frequency of the gate voltage when the target is less than the predetermined threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7069
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15717123', '15460973', '15291308', '14290584', '14796278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7856155540584554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5216859903882431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7592225976914342
- Mean Citation Score: 390.121636
- Max Citation Score: 400.4799
- Similarity Product: 328.683326416862

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