PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16447549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["710", "301000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus to communicatively coupled field devices to a remote terminal unit are disclosed. The example apparatus includes a base rack for a remote terminal unit in a process control system. The example apparatus further includes a first termination module to be inserted in a first termination slot of the base rack. Wires communicatively coupled to a field device are to be terminated on the first termination module. The example apparatus also includes a first control module separate from the first termination module to be inserted in a first control slot of the base rack. The first control module is to be communicatively coupled with the first termination module via a backplane of the base rack. The first control module is to control communications with the field device.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further including preventing, via the control module, communication of signals between the control module and the field device when the first type of the termination module is not compatible with the control module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 57.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95652
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15168827', '15722615', '15168461', '13709974', '14170072']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6481798310474203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.531569360930721
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6365187840357505
- Mean Citation Score: 217.62296
- Max Citation Score: 342.28717
- Similarity Product: 227.97892682105183

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

Dataset: test