PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["136", "244000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods taught herein provide thin film semiconductor devices such as thin film photovoltaic devices having via holes that enable electrical connection with a bottom surface of a topside contact of the thin film semiconductor device via the back side of the device (e.g., during mounting of the device). In some embodiments, the via holes are electrically insulated.

Claim (Index 3):
The thin film photovoltaic device of  claim 1 , further comprising an electrically insulating layer covering, at least, side surfaces of the bottom backside contact and the semiconductor region in the via hole forming a sidewall surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47727
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11509886', '14137172', '13340877', '12857549', '13562712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7762082951475104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4855431624959698
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7471417818823564
- Mean Citation Score: 186.50198
- Max Citation Score: 198.66367
- Similarity Product: 140.89763190950038

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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