PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["307", "020000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods to balance currents among a plurality of photovoltaic units connected in series. In aspect, a management unit is coupled between a photovoltaic energy production unit and a string of energy production units. The management unit has an energy storage element (e.g., a capacitor) connected to the photovoltaic energy production unit. The management unit further has a switch to selectively couple to the energy storage element and the photovoltaic energy production unit to the string. The management unit allows the current in the string to be larger than the current in the photovoltaic energy production unit.

Claim (Index 1):
A management unit in a photovoltaic energy production system, comprising:\n a circuit to periodically connect and disconnect a solar module to and from a power bus according to a duty cycle, the duty cycle being adjustable to operate the solar module at a maximum power point; and a controller to receive operating parameters from first management units coupled to the power bus, each of the first management units to determine operating parameters of a respective solar module and transmit the operating parameters of the respective solar module to the controller, the controller to determine duty cycles for the first management units based at least in part on the operating parameters received from the first management units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32609
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12567169', '14512786', '12411317', '13346482', '15225692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7850918239541647
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4945964756375346
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7560422891225016
- Mean Citation Score: 242.13626800000003
- Max Citation Score: 266.801
- Similarity Product: 221.313199902296

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

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