PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16502568
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["073", "799000"]

Abstract:
A method of testing a material sample of a type used in a wall of a structure in a standard test for in-plane fracture toughness evaluation. The method comprises obtaining a sample having a lateral length no larger than a thickness of the wall of the structure, shaping the sample to have (a) a bottom surface, (b) a profiled top surface having a central notch, (c) a first coupling feature on a first side of the central notch, and (d) a second coupling feature on a second side of the central notch, assembling a test specimen which increases the width of the sample beyond the lateral width by coupling a first lateral extension to the first coupling feature and a second lateral extension to the second coupling feature, and applying a standard fracture toughness test to the so-assembled test specimen and sample to evaluate the fracture toughness of the sample.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising machining the notched component is shaped such that the central notch is oriented to open in a S-L direction in a standard fracture toughness test.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59375
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15858273', '15992907', '15877932', '12525496', '15889438']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6938763127213239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.577225977963732
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6822112792455648
- Mean Citation Score: 267.73984
- Max Citation Score: 558.5342400000002
- Similarity Product: 372.1348176757624

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

Dataset: test