PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "110000"]

Abstract:
A flashlight for use with a pistol, the pistol having a trigger guard and a mounting rail. The flashlight includes an elongated housing having a spring arm clamping mechanism for mounting to the mounting rail, a light source at one end thereof, and paddle switches at an opposing end.

Claim (Index 1):
A flashlight comprising:\n a housing having a light source disposed at a first forward end thereof and further having a switching mechanism disposed at a second rearward end thereof, said housing having a longitudinal axis extending between said first and second ends thereof; said switching mechanism including an outward facing switch having an actuation axis extending in a direction perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said housing and said switching mechanism further having a paddle actuator, said paddle actuator having a paddle portion with an outwardly facing pad surface at one end thereof, said paddle actuator being mounted on a hinge pin which has an axis extending in a direction perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said housing, whereby said paddle portion extends rearwardly from said hinge pin in a plane which runs parallel to said longitudinal axis of said housing, said paddle actuator further including a projection that projects inwardly from said paddle portion adjacent to and facing said switch, said projection projecting inwardly in a plane which extends in a direction parallel to, and offset from, said longitudinal axis of said housing, said projection having a terminal end portion adjacent to said switch, said paddle actuator being hingeably movable about said hinge pin whereby said paddle portion pivots inwardly and said terminal end portion of said projection pivots inwardly to engage and actuate said switch in a direction perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said housing, and said switch being actuable for operation of said light source among a plurality of operating conditions including at least an on condition and an off condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54286
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15242917', '14599474', '14401401', '15232845', '12413997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8332290883396359
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5659851024220174
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8065046897478741
- Mean Citation Score: 327.57601199999993
- Max Citation Score: 443.92645
- Similarity Product: 429.7619996135176

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