PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "173300"]

Abstract:
A system for mounting flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules on ribbed rooftops (e.g., purlin bearing rib-style roofs) may include a pair of mating mounting brackets, one affixed to the PV module and the other affixed to a rib of the roof. The PV module may have a concave-down profile when installed, with standoffs installed on a bottom side of the module and hold-down ridge caps installed on adjacent ribs of the roof.

Claim (Index 8):
A system for mounting flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules on a rooftop, the system comprising:\n a first elongate mounting bracket including a base configured to be coupled to a first rib of a ribbed rooftop and a first flange extending parallel to the base to define a first channel, such that a distal end of the first flange is spaced from the base; and a flexible PV module having a second elongate mounting bracket oriented along a central longitudinal axis of the flexible PV module, the second elongate mounting bracket including an upper plate secured to the flexible PV module and a second flange extending parallel to the upper plate to define a second channel, such that a distal end of the second flange is spaced from the upper plate; wherein the system is transitionable between (a) a roof-mounted configuration, in which the second elongate mounting bracket is coupled to the first elongate mounting bracket, the first flange being received by the second channel and the second flange being received by the first channel, and (b) an unmounted configuration, in which the second elongate mounting bracket is decoupled from the first elongate mounting bracket and the flexible PV module is separated from the rooftop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56863
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13224652', '10506145', '16035630', '11280458', '13302041']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7833520051514553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.478064921075243
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7528232967438341
- Mean Citation Score: 206.828168
- Max Citation Score: 214.63165
- Similarity Product: 179.97979897124767

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

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