PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953850
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["423", "099000"]

Abstract:
A method of reclaiming cadmium material from photovoltaic (PV) modules is provided. The method includes submerging one or more portions of a PV module in a solution including non-distilled water, wherein the one or more portions of the PV module are submerged until cadmium material present on the PV module dissolves into the solution, boiling the solution until the dissolved cadmium material precipitates, and collecting the precipitated cadmium material.

Claim (Index 4):
The method as recited in  claim 2 , further comprising, if the glass portion of the PV module has not broken into the plurality of pieces:\n opening an edge of the PV module; and submerging the edge in the solution.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68889
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13527841', '11421343', '13600987', '12639085', '12638731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7448957152089876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950038539707673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7199065290851655
- Mean Citation Score: 158.03051000000005
- Max Citation Score: 187.09813
- Similarity Product: 117.64189077124834

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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