PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["307", "020000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods to balance currents among a plurality of photovoltaic units connected in series. In aspect, a management unit is coupled between a photovoltaic energy production unit and a string of energy production units. The management unit has an energy storage element (e.g., a capacitor) connected to the photovoltaic energy production unit. The management unit further has a switch to selectively couple to the energy storage element and the photovoltaic energy production unit to the string. The management unit allows the current in the string to be larger than the current in the photovoltaic energy production unit.

Claim (Index 6):
The management unit of  claim 5 , wherein the controller is configured to calculate estimated maximum power points of solar modules connected on the serial power bus, wherein the duty cycles are determined based on the estimated maximum power points of the solar modules.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32609
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12567169', '14512786', '12411317', '13346482', '15225692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8045329867683481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4964075711883105
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7737204452103443
- Mean Citation Score: 242.13626800000003
- Max Citation Score: 266.801
- Similarity Product: 222.9032192466855

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

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