PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16219428
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["315", "307000"]

Abstract:
A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load is able to operate in a normal mode and a burst mode. The load control device may comprise a control circuit that activates an inverter circuit during active state periods and deactivates the inverter circuit during inactive state periods. The control circuit may operate in the normal mode to regulate an average magnitude of a load current conducted through the electrical load to be above a minimum rated current. The control circuit may operate in the burst mode to adjust the average magnitude of the load current to be below the minimum rated current. The control circuit may adjust the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting the length of the inactive state periods while holding the length of the active state periods constant.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of controlling an intensity of a LED light source, the method comprising:\n generating at least one drive signal for controlling an LED drive circuit to adjust an average magnitude of a load current conducted through the LED light source to adjust the intensity of the LED light source towards a target intensity; receiving a load current feedback signal that indicates the magnitude of the load current; operating in a first state and a second state on a periodic basis over a plurality of burst periods, each of the plurality of burst periods including a first time period and a second time period; controlling the LED drive circuit in the first state during the first time period in which a value of an operational characteristic of the at least one drive signal is adjusted to regulate a peak magnitude of the load current towards a target current in response to the load current feedback signal; controlling the LED drive circuit in the second state during the second time period in which the operational characteristic of the at least one drive signal is maintained approximately constant; and adjusting the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting a length of one of the first or second time period while holding a length of the other of the first or second time period constant in at least some of the burst periods.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63636
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15857271', '16179774', '14974853', '15142876', '15703300']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8289926391077663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5838077009853941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8044741452955291
- Mean Citation Score: 497.996976
- Max Citation Score: 508.61777
- Similarity Product: 443.0091960931218

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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