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 5):
The LED driver of  claim 3 , wherein the control circuit is configured to maintain the frequency of the gate voltage at a minimum frequency and adjust the on time of the gate voltage when the target intensity is less than a minimum intensity, wherein the minimum intensity 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): 0.785706355571036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.521510768918836
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759286796905816
- Mean Citation Score: 390.121636
- Max Citation Score: 400.4799
- Similarity Product: 325.5162651063144

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