PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["136", "205000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to flexible thermoelectric devices. In some embodiments, such devices can comprise a flexible substrate with a first conductive component and a second, different conductive component deposited thereon so as to form a plurality of electrical junctions. The flexible substrate can be a fabric, and the conductive component can be deposited by methods such as stitching of conductive yarns or deposition of conductive inks. The present disclosure further relates to methods of preparing flexible thermoelectric devices and methods of utilizing flexible thermoelectric devices for producing electrical current from waste heat.

Claim (Index 29):
A method of forming a thermoelectric device comprising:\n providing a flexible substrate having a surface; and applying a first conductive ink and a second conductive ink to the surface of the flexible substrate such the first conductive ink and the second conductive ink are arranged on the surface of the flexible substrate so as to form a series of thermopile junctions, the first conductive having a Seebeck coefficient, and the second conductive ink having a Seebeck coefficient that is different from the Seebeck coefficient of the first conductive ink; wherein after said applying, the flexible substrate is in a shape such that alternating thermopile junctions are positioned so as to be spaced apart from intervening thermopile junctions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88679
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14694171', '10581281', '11864595', '10726744', '14853674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7792065427698815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5381647918037136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7551023676732648
- Mean Citation Score: 235.82113200000003
- Max Citation Score: 387.1148
- Similarity Product: 291.4547889915705

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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