PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209500
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["052", "173300"]

Abstract:
An integral, monolithic mounting bracket supports a corner of a photovoltaic module. The bracket includes a ballast tray for holding one or more ballast blocks, and includes a plurality of monolithic support legs that are disposed at acute angles from a plane of the ballast tray and that are integral with the ballast tray. The bracket can be manufactured by stamping at least two identical sections of metal from the sheet and then bending-up each section on its remaining uncut fourth side into a near-vertical position, so that each bent-up section forms a monolithic support leg.

Claim (Index 65):
An integral, monolithic mounting bracket for support a corner of a photovoltaic (PV) module, the bracket comprising:\n a ballast tray for holding one or more ballast blocks and having a rim disposed around a ballast tray perimeter; and a plurality of monolithic support legs that are disposed at an acute angle from a horizontal plane disposed inside of the ballast tray, and that are integral with the ballast tray, wherein the legs lean inwards towards a center of the bracket; wherein each support leg comprises a plurality of integral, monolithic module mounting tabs attached to the support legs, wherein each tab defines a hole for receiving a fastener from a metallic clamping assembly comprising a plurality of rigid, sharp metallic points for piercing a non-conductive anodized aluminum coating of a photovoltaic mounting frame and creating an electrical bonding path; and wherein each module mounting tab is angled at a shallow angle with respect to a horizontal plane, wherein the shallow angle ranges from 0 to 10 degrees.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56923
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15192173', '16035630', '13317142', '15451292', '15172735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.767608962455124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6023762604304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7510856922526516
- Mean Citation Score: 265.66015200000004
- Max Citation Score: 522.49054
- Similarity Product: 477.9355047128797

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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