PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185010
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["385", "033000"]

Abstract:
An optical article employing a lenticular lens array associated with a layer of optically transmissive material and illuminated by a light source. The layer of optically transmissive material includes discrete microscopic surface relief features formed in a surface opposite to the lenses forming the lenticular lens array. The discrete microscopic surface relief features deflect light propagating through the layer of optically transmissive material and direct the light out of the layer. The optical article may be further associated with a reflective surface and/or a photoabsorptive layer configured to partially transmit and partially absorb and convert light.

Claim (Index 24):
An optical article, comprising:\n a lenticular lens array having a rectangular shape and comprising a plurality of elongated cylindrical lenses aligned parallel to an edge of the lens array; an artificial light source illuminating the lenticular lens array; a layer of an optically transmissive material associated with the lenticular lens array and configured to guide light using optical transmission and a total internal reflection; a plurality of discrete surface relief features formed in a broad-area surface of the layer and distributed over an area of the broad-area surface according to a predetermined two-dimensional pattern; the plurality of discrete surface relief features being disposed in optical communication with respect to the plurality of elongated cylindrical lenses; a planar reflective surface disposed along the layer and disposed in an energy receiving relationship with respect to the broad-area surface; wherein a cumulative area of the plurality of discrete surface relief features is substantially less than the area of the broad-area surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96078
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13345738', '14181439', '15838061', '13351800', '15442645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8365600100207733
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5208237267807725
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8049863816967733
- Mean Citation Score: 306.43851400000005
- Max Citation Score: 346.0418
- Similarity Product: 293.4864887677908

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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