PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "064000"]

Abstract:
In various embodiments, photovoltaic modules are hermetically sealed by providing a first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device disposed on the first glass sheet, and a second glass sheet, a gap being defined between the first and second glass sheets, disposing a glass powder within the gap, and heating the powder to seal the glass sheets.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of hermetically sealing a photovoltaic module, the method comprising:\n providing a structure comprising:\n a first glass sheet, \n disposed on the first glass sheet, a photovoltaic device configured to absorb at least a portion of a solar spectrum and convert the at least a portion of the solar spectrum into electricity, \n a second glass sheet disposed over the photovoltaic device, the first glass sheet and the second glass sheet thereby defining a gap at least a portion of which is spanned by the photovoltaic device, and \n a powder consisting essentially of glass disposed within the gap at an edge region proximate an edge of at least one of the first glass sheet or the second glass sheet, the powder being free of glass frit, frit material, organic fillers, binders, solvents, and lead; and \n thereafter, heating the powder within the gap to seal the first and second glass sheets at the edge region with a layer of melted glass powder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87879
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: half
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14986983', '14457922', '15896180', '14236824', '16062360']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8821676428485161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5348517776132226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8474360563249868
- Mean Citation Score: 276.170334
- Max Citation Score: 364.3091
- Similarity Product: 339.980418535161

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

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