PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188776
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["136", "246000"]

Abstract:
A photovoltaic (PV) module clip, and methods of fastening a PV module to a structural member using the PV module clip, are described. In an example, a PV module clip includes a toe portion interconnected with several legs by a neck portion. The toe portion may be inserted through several aligned holes of a PV module frame and a mounting assembly strut to an underside of the strut. The neck portion may extend upward from the toe portion through the aligned holes to the legs above the strut. The legs may extend around a portion of the strut in a tensioned state, and engage with a retaining feature to hold the legs in the tensioned state. Accordingly, the legs may clamp the PV module to the mounting assembly.

Claim (Index 12):
The photovoltaic (PV) module assembly of  claim 11 , wherein the clip ends are laterally inward from and vertically above the respective one of the proximal leg junctions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38983
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15254980', '15255001', '14357681', '14923373', '15254988']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7987813018009059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5359661104536162
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7724997826661769
- Mean Citation Score: 223.498056
- Max Citation Score: 370.93643
- Similarity Product: 260.5946432599449

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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