Exemplary Validity Analysis Battery Conservation Innovations

Patent-in-suit
US 9,239,158
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About the Litigation The Patented Technology - US’158

The present patent in suit relates to a battery-conserving flashlight which includes a

The Plaintiff
body having a first end and a second end. The first end includes an illumination source
Plaintiff Battery Conservation
and the second end includes an opening for accessing an interior of the body and a
Innovations is a Texas based NPE with
battery is disposed in the body via the opening in the second end. The battery is
office address of North Miami, Florida.
coupled to and is configured for powering the illumination source. A controller is

disposed in the body of the flashlight and is configured to determine if the body is in

motion, wherein if the body is not in motion for a predetermined period of time, the

controller decouples the at least one battery from the illumination source to conserve
PATENT-IN-SUIT energy in the at least one battery. Also, the flashlight includes a visual indicator to alert

a user that the flashlight will shutdown.

As part of our regular due-diligence and exemplary studies, we took this sample case
US 9,239,158
and have performed a brief validity search, and were hoping of sharing the finding(s)

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 Potential Prior Art Reference (I) - WO2010083047A1

[Abstract] A portable lighting device having a plurality of modes of operation and method of operating the portable lighting
device are disclosed.

[Page 57, Line 20-32] While the automatically turned off feature is enabled 944 without switching off 946, if flashlight 100 is not
moved 948, a timer may be reset 950 for automatically turning off flashlight 100 after a certain amount of time. When this timer
lapses 952, flashlight 100 may be automatically turned off 954. Before the timer expires, however any movement on flashlight
100 may cause the timer to reset.

In a preferred embodiment, the timer may be set to be expire in 5 minutes. However, the timer may be set to expire at other
times, e.g. 10 minutes.

The expiration time may comprise a software timer implemented by a software program, e.g., a counting routine, executed
by controller 602. Alternatively, the timer may comprise a hardware timer implemented by electronic circuits.

Flashlight 100 may be automatically turned off when there is inactivity, e.g., no movement on flashlight 100 for a period of
time. Battery power may thus be saved by this automatic turn off feature.

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 Potential Prior Art (II) - US20090261737A1

[Para 22] Referring now to FIG. 1, a Motion Activated Utility Light (MAUL) 10 is depicted.

[Para 41] The power control 30 is both an input and an output module. Some actions that may not be controlled by the
processor 31 include the automatic power shut off provided by the battery protection module 32 and the power control
module 30, which are caused by major fault conditions.

[Para 59] In addition to the battery save mode, the MAUL 10 also has a built in auto-shut off timer (red/green and red/amber
traffic modes only) that will turn off the MAUL 10 electronically so the MAUL 10 is not accidentally left on to drain the battery.
After a predetermined amount of time, the MAUL 10 will begin to flash and beep ten times to alert the operator it is about to
shut power off. If the operator takes no action, the MAUL 10 will shut off. If however, the operator presses the trigger switch 65
or the power/mode switch 84, before it shuts down, the MAUL 10 will remain on and reset the internal auto shut off timer.

[Para 44] The battery/charger indicator light 82 may consist of a red/green bi-color LED. In an embodiment, the processor 31
monitors the battery voltage and displays five levels of battery capacity, as shown by the LED color and predetermined flash
rate.

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