PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "293000"]

Abstract:
An arc detection and intervention system for a solar energy system. One or more arc detectors are strategically located among strings of solar panels. In conjunction with local management units (LMUs), arcs can be isolated and affected panels disconnected from the solar energy system.

Claim (Index 10):
An arc locating method, comprising:\n controlling, by a plurality of devices, a plurality of photovoltaic panels, wherein each respective device in the plurality of the devices has:\n a switch to control output of electricity generated by a respective photovoltaic panel to which the respective device is locally coupled, and \n a controller to transmit and receive information; and \n communicating, by a computing apparatus, with the controllers in the plurality of devices and with an arc detector in a photovoltaic system having the photovoltaic panels controlled by the plurality of the devices; and in response to the arc detector detecting presence of an arc in the photovoltaic system:\n instructing, by the computing apparatus via the communicating, the controllers to change operations of the photovoltaic panels; \n receiving, in the computing apparatus via the communicating, arc detecting results from the arc detector responsive to changes in the operations of the photovoltaic panels; and \n identifying, by the computing apparatus, a location of the arc within the photovoltaic system based on changes in the arc detecting results responsive to the changes in the operations of the photovoltaic panels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14718426', '13075093', '13004962', '13346482', '15225692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3968204589135728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4667382491015148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4038122379323671
- Mean Citation Score: 172.108644
- Max Citation Score: 219.01486
- Similarity Product: 188.0830416715729

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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