PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997145
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["405", "184400"]

Abstract:
A system for straightening downwardly-bowed underground pipeline using a means of pumping expandable fluid into substratum below the pipeline bow. The system includes an apparatus for identifying the bowed section of underground pipeline, and a device for delivering expandable liquid to the target site beneath the pipeline bow. The apparatus includes a frame supporting a series of probe-rods driven into contact with the top of the pipeline, to locate the bowed section. The device for straightening downwardly-bowed underground pipeline uses a means of pumping expandable fluid into substratum below the pipeline bow; the device comprises an elongated shaft having a trailing end and a leading end and defining a fluid pathway from the upstream trailing end to the downstream leading end. The trailing end is adapted to secure fluid communication between the fluid pathway and the means of pumping expandable fluid, and the fluid pathway terminates in at least one downstream fluid pathway exit; the leading end also including a means of shielding said pathway exit and diverting the fluid from continued downstream travel.

Claim (Index 10):
An apparatus described in  claim 9 , said apparatus comprising a plurality of intermediate probe-rods positioned within a respective passthrough tube by a respective clamp.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38961
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11168120', '13504128', '11284620', '13504127', '12802162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7275130943426503
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4844654825816812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7032083331665535
- Mean Citation Score: 139.360326
- Max Citation Score: 159.24681
- Similarity Product: 108.81983112213314

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