PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971937
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["073", "587000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus comprises an acoustic sensing system and an analyzer module. The acoustic sensing system is positioned relative to an object, wherein the acoustic sensing system detects acoustic emissions and generates acoustic waveform data for the acoustic emissions detected. The analyzer module is implemented in a computer system that receives load data and the acoustic waveform data for the object, generates a plurality of frequency distribution functions using the acoustic waveform data, and generates a frequency distribution function time evolution image containing a plurality of points of each of the plurality of frequency distribution functions.

Claim (Index 19):
A method comprising:\n detecting acoustic emissions radiating from an object using an acoustic sensing system to generate acoustic waveform data; generating, by an analyzer module, a plurality of frequency distribution functions using the acoustic waveform data, wherein each of the plurality of frequency distribution functions has an identifier of either a respective time or a respective load; creating an array that has a quantity of columns equivalent to a quantity of frequency distribution functions in the plurality of frequency distribution functions and a quantity of rows equivalent to a quantity of frequency bins in each frequency distribution function of the plurality of frequency distribution functions; and filling the array such that a plurality of points of each of the plurality of frequency distribution functions is contained within the array, in which the array allows the analyzer module to identify structural changes in the object previously unidentifiable by an operator using frequency plots containing a single point for each waveform of the acoustic waveform data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14894
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15150595', '12145579', '12848663', '10533049', '14629784']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6893543186205263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5214998273022454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6725688694886982
- Mean Citation Score: 179.16046
- Max Citation Score: 343.2464
- Similarity Product: 277.89682584991453

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

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