PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["166", "250010"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for measuring the size of a round object are provided. Apparatus and methods for checking that a drop ball used in a well fracturing process has a predetermined diameter before being introduced into the wellbore are provided.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for introducing a drop ball into a wellbore, the apparatus comprising:\n an inlet; an outlet that can be placed in fluid communication with the inlet; a measuring chamber interposing the inlet and the outlet; a ball release support positioned to initially support the drop ball within the measuring chamber and actuable to allow the drop ball to move from the measuring chamber to the wellbore via the outlet; and a measuring piston actuable to contact an edge of the drop ball within the measuring chamber to measure a diameter of the drop ball.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 66.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.35484
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15242029', '14329234', '15059033', '12144401', '12778945']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7394071989763071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754515577078942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7130116348494658
- Mean Citation Score: 170.861872
- Max Citation Score: 189.98944
- Similarity Product: 140.0782475099945

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

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