PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "253000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for measuring submerged surfaces. Embodiments include a measurement apparatus including a main frame, a source positioned outside a pipe and connected to the main frame, and a detector positioned outside the pipe at a location diametrically opposite the source and connected to the main frame. The source may transmit a first amount of radiation. The detector may receive a second amount of radiation, determine a composition of the pipe based on the first and second amounts of radiation, and send at least one measurement signal. A control canister positioned on the main frame or on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) attached to the apparatus may receive the at least one measurement signal from the detector and convey the at least one measurement signal to software located topside.

Claim (Index 27):
A method for measuring submerged pipelines, comprising:\n connecting an attachment of a measurement apparatus to a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), wherein the measurement apparatus comprises:\n a main frame; \n a source positioned outside a section of pipe and connected to the main frame, the source configured to transmit a first amount of radiation; \n a detector positioned outside the section of pipe and connected to the main frame at a location diametrically opposite the source, the detector configured to receive a second amount of radiation, determine a composition of the section of pipe based on the first and second amounts of radiation, and send at least one measurement signal; \n a control canister positioned on the main frame or on the ROV, the control canister configured to receive the at least one measurement signal from the detector and convey the at least one measurement signal to software located topside; and \n at least one buoyancy structure positioned on the main frame, the at least one buoyancy structure configured to hold the apparatus in place on the pipe, lowering and placing the measurement apparatus upon the section of pipe using the ROV; \n taking a measurement of the section of pipe using the detector to create the at least one measurement signal; sending the at least one measurement signal from the detector to the control canister; and conveying the at least one measurement signal from the control canister to the software located topside.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20896
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15141269', '14868048', '15766117', '13458260', '10290555']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6692761336316052
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.474315526445506
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6497800729129952
- Mean Citation Score: 128.3965608
- Max Citation Score: 241.85953
- Similarity Product: 230.2001968500066

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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