PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941530
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "217010"]

Abstract:
A vehicle lighting apparatus may include a backing panel. The vehicle lighting apparatus may include a light guide panel (LGP) layered over the backing panel, wherein the LGP includes a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the front surface with the rear surface. The vehicle lighting apparatus may include a light source positioned along a first side surface of the plurality of side surfaces of the LGP. The vehicle lighting apparatus may include a front film layered over the front surface of the LGP, wherein the LGP includes a plurality of refraction elements that refract light emitted from the light source through the front surface of the LGP and through the front film and wherein a distribution pattern of the refraction elements creates a corresponding pattern of differing light intensities visible through the front film when illuminated by the light source.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of identifying a dent on a vehicle, comprising:\n illuminating a portion of a vehicle with a vehicle lighting apparatus, wherein the vehicle lighting apparatus includes a:\n a light guide panel (LGP) including a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the front surface with the rear surface, \n a powered light source positioned along a first side surface of the plurality of side surfaces of the LGP such that a light produced by the light source enters the LGP through the first side surface, \n a reflector panel positioned against the rear surface of the LGP such that a portion of the light produced by the light source that exits the rear side of the LGP is reflected back into the LGP by the reflector panel, \n a plurality of refraction elements in the LGP, wherein the plurality of refraction elements refract the light produced by the light source to exit the front surface of the LGP concentrated within an area of the front surface of the LGP aligned immediately over the plurality of refraction elements, and \n a light diffusing panel layered over the front surface of the LGP, \n wherein the vehicle lighting apparatus outputs a plurality of alternating bright stripes and dark stripes to illuminate the vehicle, wherein the bright stripes correspond to the area of the front surface of the LGP aligned immediately over the plurality of refraction elements and wherein the dark stripes correspond to an area of the front surface of the LGP not aligned immediately over the plurality of refraction elements; inspecting the portion of the vehicle utilizing the plurality of alternating bright stripes and dark stripes output by the vehicle lighting module; and identifying the dent on the vehicle from the inspection.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92727
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10700050', '15741108', '13179274', '12483406', '15536974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8154093840422645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.461394078502586
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7800078534882967
- Mean Citation Score: 117.815757
- Max Citation Score: 120.57715
- Similarity Product: 83.14167903849483

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