PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954993
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["320", "107000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for aggregating and supplying energy includes a plurality of power modules for inverting a first type of electrical power, which is supplied to the power modules from multiple sources of power, to a second type of electrical power at an output of the power modules for delivery of the inverted power to a storage device for future use, or to an electrical load, or to a regional or central utility grid. A microcontroller (the “power microcontroller”) is carried by and incorporated within each of the power modules and each is configured for controlling the power inversion operations. The power microcontrollers are configured for generating, from each of the plurality of power modules, controlled pulses of charge and discharge for increasing storage capacity of the energy storage device. A control module is also connected with the plurality of power modules. A microcontroller (the “control microcontroller”) carried by the control module is configured for monitoring voltage levels within the at least one energy storage device and for rebalancing voltage within the energy storage device and for correcting lead and lag power factor. Sensors are positioned in contact with the energy storage device continually sensing its voltage levels and are in communication with the control microcontroller for supplying sensed data thereto. Means for selectively supplying power received from said multiple disparate sources of power to said destination.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for aggregating and supplying energy comprising:\n a plurality of power modules for inverting a first type of electrical power, which is supplied to said power modules from multiple disparate sources of power, to a second type of electrical power at an output of said power modules; a first busbar connected with said multiple sources of power and connected with said plurality of power modules for providing said first type of electrical power thereto; a second busbar connected with an output of said power modules for receiving said second type of electrical power from said plurality of power modules and for making said second type of electrical power available to a destination; a power microcontroller carried by and incorporated within each of said power modules, each said power microcontroller configured for controlling power inversion operations of said power modules; a control module connected with said plurality of power modules; at least one energy storage device external to said apparatus and connected therewith in communication with said plurality of power modules for receiving electrical energy from the output thereof; a charging module and a discharge microcontroller supported by said charging module configured by an algorithm based pulse width modulator (\u201cPWM\u201d) for continually monitoring said at least one energy storage device, said discharge microcontroller further configured for generating controlled pulses of charge and discharge for increasing storage capacity of said at least one energy storage device; a control microcontroller carried by and incorporated within said control module and connected with said at least one energy storage device; sensors positioned in contact with said at least one energy storage device continually sensing voltage levels within said at least one energy storage device, said sensors being in communication with said control microcontroller for supplying sensed data thereto; said control microcontroller configured for determining and monitoring voltage levels within said at least one energy storage device based on said sensed data and for rebalancing voltage within said at least one energy storage device, and further configured for detecting lagging or leading power factor based on said sensed data and for charging capacitance or inductance as required for correcting lagging or leading power factor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46535
- Patent Class: 320.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13398744', '14901447', '10875622', '13324434', '14877583']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7027407519518758
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730125937902436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6797679361357126
- Mean Citation Score: 183.464384
- Max Citation Score: 186.06773
- Similarity Product: 144.45345325981555

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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