PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16299370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["052", "173300"]

Abstract:
In one aspect, the invention is a system for installing solar shingles on a slanted roof, the system, which includes a roofing underlayment on top of the roof and providing mechanical and electrical connection for solar shingles. The system also includes a plurality of rectangular solar shingles, each shingle with a top edge and a bottom edge. A plurality of shingle support brackets rise from the underlayment, with at least some of the brackets having a first channel opening generally downward and at least some others of the brackets having a second channel opening generally upward. In the system, the top edge of each shingle is received into the first channel of at least one bracket and the bottom edge of each shingle is received into the second channel of at least one other bracket. The depth of the first channel is great enough to allow the top edge of a shingle to be inserted far enough for the bottom edge to align with a second channel, and to allow the bottom edge of the shingle to fall into the second channel while the top edge is still retained by the first channel.

Claim (Index 19):
The invention of  claim 14  wherein the solar shingles further comprise a plurality of contacts wherein the contacts electrically connect the solar shingle to control circuiting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84722
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14207802', '12590346', '13897789', '13183230', '12509695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8542181071916041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5071365782948389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8195099543019275
- Mean Citation Score: 271.64387400000004
- Max Citation Score: 293.6548200000001
- Similarity Product: 219.4632381752372

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