PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987990
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["362", "511000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a light pipe arrangement for complex automotive lighting features. The light pipe arrangement includes proximately aligned light pipes comprising at least one grouping of reflecting facets for creating a striped aesthetic.

Claim (Index 1):
A lighting device for an automotive vehicle, comprising:\n a plurality of light sources; and a plurality of light guides optically-coupled to the plurality of light sources and configured to guide a light emitted from the plurality of light sources along a light guiding direction, wherein each one of the plurality of light guides extends in a pre-determined direction from a corresponding one of the plurality of light sources and includes a plurality of decoupling regions separated from each other by an inter-grouping region defined by an inter-grouping distance along the light guiding direction of each one of the plurality of light guides, wherein the plurality of light guides are arranged in contact, a second one of the plurality of light guides being stacked on a first one of the plurality of light guides, each decoupling region of the plurality of decoupling regions of each one of the plurality of light guides is aligned with a corresponding decoupling region of the plurality of decoupling regions of an adjacent light guide of the plurality of light guides, and when illuminated, the aligned decoupling regions produce a lit visual effect along a common axis of the plurality of light guides, inter-grouping regions therebetween being unlit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.26667
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13535597', '11748773', '15541086', '11013272', '12794998']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8273657108072042
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4485771455247831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7894868542789621
- Mean Citation Score: 150.95193999999995
- Max Citation Score: 172.2554
- Similarity Product: 147.7534757129907

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