PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15996102
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["073", "632000"]

Abstract:
The present apparatus is configured to carry an instrument or probe and optionally deploy it against a surface, such as a metal pipeline or storage tank. The apparatus can include a sensor probe for inspecting the integrity of the surface and a first linkage that is operatively coupled to the sensor probe and configured to move the sensor probe according to a first path (in a first direction/first degree of freedom). An actuator can be operatively connected to the first linkage for moving the first linkage so as to move the sensor probe along the first path. A second linkage is operatively connected to the sensor probe and configured to passively move the sensor probe according to a second degree of freedom to cause the sensor probe to become normal to the surface when at least a portion of the apparatus contacts the surface.

Claim (Index 6):
The system of  claim 5 , wherein the ultrasonic probe comprises an ultrasonic dry coupled wheel probe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28788
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14624726', '15647372', '15647332', '11104839', '14593699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6595637895828814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5358202645469399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6471894370792873
- Mean Citation Score: 193.88033
- Max Citation Score: 339.44083
- Similarity Product: 201.33292135976967

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