PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["052", "173300"]

Abstract:
A system for mounting flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules on ribbed rooftops (e.g., purlin bearing rib-style roofs) may include a pair of mating mounting brackets, one affixed to the PV module and the other affixed to a rib of the roof. The PV module may have a concave-down profile when installed, with standoffs installed on a bottom side of the module and hold-down ridge caps installed on adjacent ribs of the roof.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for mounting flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules on a rooftop, the system comprising:\n a first elongate mounting bracket including a base coupled to a first rib of a ribbed rooftop, a first stem portion extending transversely from the base, and a first flange extending parallel to the base from the first stem portion, such that a distal end of the first flange is spaced from the base, defining a first channel; a flexible PV module; and a second elongate mounting bracket attached to the flexible PV module and including an upper plate secured to the flexible PV module, a second stem portion extending transversely from the upper plate, and a second flange extending from the second stem portion parallel to the upper plate, such that a distal end of the second flange is spaced from the upper plate, defining a second channel; wherein the system is transitionable between (a) a roof-mounted configuration, in which the second elongate mounting bracket is coupled to the first elongate mounting bracket, the first flange being received by the second channel and the second flange being received by the first channel, and (b) an unmounted configuration, in which the second elongate mounting bracket is decoupled from the first elongate mounting bracket and the flexible PV module is separated from the rooftop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56863
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13224652', '10506145', '16035630', '11280458', '13302041']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7832732990477629
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785390830725012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7527998774502367
- Mean Citation Score: 206.828168
- Max Citation Score: 214.63165
- Similarity Product: 179.14539831097423

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test