PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["307", "082000"]

Abstract:
A system for measuring the power or energy loss in a photovoltaic array due to soiling, which is the accumulation of dust, dirt, and/or other contaminants on the surfaces of photovoltaic modules, comprising: a pair of photovoltaic reference devices placed within or near the photovoltaic array and co-planar to the modules comprising the array, wherein one reference device is a module or cell similar to those of the array and is allowed to accumulate soiling at the natural rate, and wherein the second reference device is a module or a cell and is maintained clean; and a measurement and control unit which measures and compares the electrical outputs of the soiled reference device and the clean reference device in order to determine the fraction of power lost by the soiled reference module due to soiling.

Claim (Index 5):
The system of  claim 4 , wherein said temperature measurements are used to temperature-correct said measurements of said subparts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08696
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15482291', '14381165', '15346495', '15495275', '15173821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8340479212273716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.601967986039738
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8108399277086082
- Mean Citation Score: 407.5580319999999
- Max Citation Score: 514.5792
- Similarity Product: 502.2924570716858

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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