PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["363", "040000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods to improve operation of a modular multilevel converter. Some embodiments include a first upper arm with a first active power link module, which facilitates producing a first portion of a first alternating current electrical power at a base frequency and injecting a first even-order current harmonic of the base frequency in the first upper arm, and a first lower arm with a second active power link module, which facilitates producing a second portion of the first alternating current, in which the first portion of the first alternating current and the second portion of the alternating current are combined to facilitate outputting the first alternating current electrical power at a first alternating current terminal, and injecting the first even-order current harmonic in the first lower arm, in which magnitude of the first even-order current harmonic is zero at the first alternating current terminal.

Claim (Index 1):
A modular multilevel converter comprising:\n a first upper arm comprising a first active power link module, wherein the first active power link module is configured to selectively connect and disconnect a first ultracapacitor to the first upper arm to facilitate:\n producing a first portion of a first alternating current electrical power at a base frequency; and \n injecting a first even-order current harmonic of the base frequency in the first upper arm; \n a first lower arm comprising a second active power link module, wherein the second active power link module is configured to selectively connect and disconnect a second ultracapacitor to the first lower arm to facilitate:\n producing a second portion of the first alternating current, wherein the first portion of the first alternating current and the second portion of the alternating current are combined to facilitate outputting the first alternating current electrical power at a first alternating current terminal; and \n injecting the first even-order current harmonic in the first lower arm, wherein magnitude of the first even-order current harmonic is zero at the first alternating current terminal; \n wherein the first even-order current harmonic is configured to reduce root-mean-square current flowing in the first ultracapacitor and root-mean square of current flowing the second ultracapacitor when the modular multilevel converter is in operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12245
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14063698', '15237870', '14960729', '14878817', '15564226']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8133680514391677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4923487182827089
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7812661181235219
- Mean Citation Score: 225.994746
- Max Citation Score: 251.79196
- Similarity Product: 190.10192306535004

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

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