PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922316
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["362", "245000"]

Abstract:
A luminaire that includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), a light diffuser having a planar surface facing the LEDs, and a reflector that surrounds a cavity formed between the light diffuser and the LEDs. Also disclosed is a method of distributing light that involves emitting light towards a light diffuser having a planar surface having a reflective coating, scattering a first portion of the light with the light diffuser, reflecting a second portion of the light with the light diffuser, reflecting the second portion of the light with a first reflective surface back towards the light diffuser, and scattering the second portion of the light with the light diffuser. Further disclosed is another method of distributing light that involves emitting light toward a light diffuser and reflecting a portion of the emitted light toward the light diffuser via a reflector.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of distributing light, the method comprising:\n emitting light from a plurality of light sources toward a plurality of lenses, each of the light sources being aligned with a respective one of the plurality of lenses; converting a first portion of the emitted light into a first light distribution pattern via a first portion of the plurality of lenses, the first light distribution pattern directed toward a light diffuser spaced apart from the plurality of lenses, converting a second portion of the emitted light into a second light distribution pattern via a second portion of the plurality of lenses, the second light distribution pattern having a steep first portion directed toward the light diffuser and a shallow second portion directed toward a reflector surrounding a cavity formed between the light diffuser and the plurality of lenses; reflecting the light from the shallow second portion with the reflector, the reflected light from the shallow second portion reflected toward the light diffuser; and scattering, with the light diffuser, at least a portion of each of (i) the light from the first light distribution pattern, (ii) the light from the first steep portion of the second light distribution pattern, and (iii) the reflected light from the shallow second portion of the second light distribution pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1875
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14215853', '15095506', '14341125', '13710638', '15443818']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8493279139271458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5467354869497535
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8190686712294065
- Mean Citation Score: 282.5968
- Max Citation Score: 424.73935
- Similarity Product: 371.8370323835344

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

Dataset: test