PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006451
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["073", "623000"]

Abstract:
A sensor carrier module for use in a pipeline pig may include a plurality of skids arranged about an axis of the sensor carrier module, and a flexible section. Each skid typically includes an upstream end, a downstream end, and at least one sensor between the upstream end and the downstream end. Each sensor may be configured to sense a parameter of a wall of a pipeline. The flexible section may be attached to the downstream ends of the skids and to a flange. The flexible section may include wheels configured to roll along the interior surface of the pipeline as the sensor carrier module passes through the pipeline, and a force system to apply a radial force that urges the wheels to interface with the interior surface of the pipeline.

Claim (Index 38):
A method of inspecting a pipeline, comprising:\n advancing a pipeline pig into an interior volume of a pipeline such that a moving seal is formed between a first volume of a first section of pipeline downstream of the pipeline pig and a second volume of a second section of pipeline upstream of the pipeline pig, the pipeline pig having at least one guide on a cone section that is urged radially outward against an interior surface of pipeline to maintain a desired radial distance between a plurality of ultrasonic transducers of the pipeline pig and the interior surface of the pipeline, wherein the plurality of ultrasonic transducers are disposed on a skid of the pipeline pig, between an upstream end of the skid and a downstream end of the skid, and wherein only the downstream end of the skid is coupled to the cone section; advancing the pipeline pig in the downstream direction through the pipeline using a difference between a first pressure in the first volume and a second pressure in the second volume; and logging data from the plurality of ultrasonic transducers as the pipeline pig flows through the section of pipeline.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25806
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14997125', '15617632', '15987578', '14873140', '11284620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.655743718892406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335619862881693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6435255456319824
- Mean Citation Score: 234.27629
- Max Citation Score: 360.11942
- Similarity Product: 335.8245402483081

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

Dataset: test