PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877588
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["073", "655000"]

Abstract:
Externally generated noise can be coupled into a fluid carrying structure such as a pipe, well, or borehole so as to artificially acoustically “illuminate” the pipe, well, or borehole, and allow fluid flow in the structure or structural integrity to be determined. In the disclosed system, externally generated noise is coupled into the structure being monitored at the same time as data logging required to undertake the monitoring is performed. This has three effects. First, the externally generated sound is coupled into the structure so as to “illuminate” acoustically the structure to allow data to be collected from which fluid flow may be determined, and secondly the amount of data that need be collected is reduced, as there is no need to log data when the structure is not being illuminated. Thirdly, there are signal processing advantages in having the data logging being undertaken only when the acoustic illumination occurs.

Claim (Index 4):
A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the acoustic wave is generated by an acoustic source internal to the structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03614
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14440138', '15122038', '13320882', '15507111', '14346437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6609622204578144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087155870787545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6457375571199083
- Mean Citation Score: 174.030222
- Max Citation Score: 274.44717
- Similarity Product: 217.3689952425009

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

Dataset: test