PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034299
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["136", "256000"]

Abstract:
A solar tile and method for manufacturing solar tiles as a roofing surface with improved aesthetics that reduce the visual differences between solar and non-solar portions of tile. Roof tiles include an active area of thin-film photovoltaic material and an inactive area of thin-film photovoltaic material.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of manufacturing a photovoltaic roof tile comprising:\n depositing a layer of thin-film photovoltaic material on a base substrate; removing a portion of the layer of thin-film photovoltaic material to form an active area of photovoltaic material and an inactive area of photovoltaic material, wherein the inactive area is located between an edge of the base substrate and the active area of photovoltaic material; and encapsulating the active area and inactive area between the base substrate and a light transmissive top sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41176
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15653493', '15399712', '15881691', '15712113', '15909880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7834103132296303
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4898380240187545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7540530843085428
- Mean Citation Score: 193.547726
- Max Citation Score: 227.00696
- Similarity Product: 168.31858884630682

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

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