PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "064000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, photovoltaic modules are hermetically sealed by providing a first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet, and a second glass sheet, a gap being defined between the first and second glass sheets, disposing a glass powder within the gap, and heating the powder to seal the glass sheets.

Claim (Index 40):
The method of  claim 21 , further comprising, after the first and second glass sheets are sealed at the edge region, (i) cooling the layer of melted glass powder, and (ii) annealing the sealed photovoltaic module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87879
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986983', '14457922', '15896180', '14236824', '16062360']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8639751806283177
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5322104928496951
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8307987118504554
- Mean Citation Score: 276.170334
- Max Citation Score: 364.3091
- Similarity Product: 284.853042295897

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

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