PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "492100"]

Abstract:
Certain embodiments of this invention relates to a coated article including a low-emissivity (low-E) coating supported by a substrate (e.g., glass substrate) for use in a window, where the low-E coating is exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation in order to improve the coating's and thus the coated article's electrical, optical and/or thermal blocking properties. The low-E coating includes at least one infrared (IR) reflecting layer of or including silver which is located on and directly contacting a contact/seed layer of or including metal oxide such as zinc oxide and/or zinc stannate. Exposing the low-E coating to UV radiation, e.g., emitted from a UV lamp(s) and/or UV laser(s), allows for selective heating of the contact/seed layer which in turn transfers the heat energy to the adjacent IR reflecting layer. This heating of the silver inclusive layer improves the silver layer's electrical, optical and/or thermal blocking properties. The UV treated coated article, with its improved properties, may be used in the context of monolithic or insulating glass (IG) window units.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of making a coated article for use in a window, the method comprising:\n having a coated article including a glass substrate that supports a coating comprising at least one layer comprising silver located directly on and contacting a layer comprising zinc oxide that can absorb ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the coating further comprising a dielectric layer between the layer comprising zinc oxide and the glass substrate, and at least one upper dielectric layer located over the layer comprising silver so that the layer comprising silver is located between at least the upper dielectric layer and the glass substrate; directing UV radiation from at least one UV source toward the coating and exposing the coating to UV radiation in order to reduce a sheet resistance of the coating; and wherein the coated article has a visible transmission of at least about 50% after said exposing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07216
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15285848', '13484844', '15256872', '15446023', '15848120']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7305196954023513
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.51114487012364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7085822128744802
- Mean Citation Score: 284.100158
- Max Citation Score: 309.97668
- Similarity Product: 236.4153219817257

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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