PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948660
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "098000"]

Abstract:
A light source includes a side-emitting, light emitting diode (LED) that is mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) or other substrate. The LED is used to illuminate a target such as a sensor or the like. In order to increase the amount of illumination emitted by the LED that reaches the target, a reflector is located on the PCB. The reflector receives light that is emitted by the LED and directed toward the PCB and not the target. This light, which would otherwise be lost, is reflected by the reflector and re-directed toward the target. By reducing the amount of light is lost, the amount of light reaching the target can be increased without a commensurate increase in the current supplied to the LED.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of forming an LED light source, comprising:\n patterning a metal layer on a printed circuit board (PCB) with a predefined circuit pattern, the circuit pattern including at least first and second metal electrode pads for respectively receiving an anode and cathode electrode of a surface mounted, side-emitting LED, the circuit pattern further including a third metal pad configured to receive illumination emitted by an emitting surface of the LED so that at least a portion of the illumination reflected by the third metal pad is directed to a target to be illuminated; coating the patterned metal layer with a solderable finishing surface material, the solderable finishing surface material reflecting light at wavelengths emitted by the LED; soldering the LED to PCB so that the anode and the cathode electrodes of the LED are mechanically and electrically secured to the first and second metal electrode pads, respectively, while the third metal pad remains exposed to receive illumination from the LED.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05882
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11423419', '09767695', '11253174', '15078488', '11954712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9125234330498192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4878919744046328
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8700602871853006
- Mean Citation Score: 175.38337199999995
- Max Citation Score: 180.91724
- Similarity Product: 119.87154340446472

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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