PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136885
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["362", "249060"]

Abstract:
Employing capacitors as shunts in a decorative light string can prevent the circuit from being opened when a lamp burns out or becomes loose in the socket. But manually assembling such a light string is costly and the quality of the resulting string is not assured to be high. The present disclosure introduces a shunted light string, and a method of assembling that light string that is able to be automated to ensure a consistent quality level by reducing or eliminating human workmanship issues.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of assembling a light string, the method comprising:\n selecting a cylindrical wire lead capacitor comprising a curved sidewall, a substantially circular bottom, and a pair of wire leads extending from the bottom; bending each wire lead of the pair of wire leads to extend adjacent to the sidewall of the capacitor; forming a first intermediate wire portion comprising a first wire end and a second intermediate wire portion comprising a second wire end; connecting a first electrical terminal to the first wire end and a second electrical terminal to the second wire end; disposing the first electrical terminal and the second electrical terminal within a lamp socket; inserting the capacitor into the lamp socket such that a first wire lead of the pair of wire leads contacts the first electrical terminal and a second wire lead of the pair of wire leads contacts the second electrical terminal; and inserting a lamp into the lamp socket such that a first lead of the lamp contacts the first electrical terminal and a second lead of the lamp contacts the second electrical terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49153
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14927786', '15443361', '14328221', '12437665', '12417721']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8456824993919976
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5246482295843616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.813579072411234
- Mean Citation Score: 237.213406
- Max Citation Score: 369.9156
- Similarity Product: 328.7099536502838

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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