PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["427", "140000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a method of applying a coating to an external surface of a man-made object to be at least partly immersed in water (e.g. a vessel or an offshore drilling station) for a time period wherein there is relative movement between the immersed object and the water. The applied coating has a minimal resistance rating for a set of coatings. The method comprises a computer-implemented coating selection process, which comprises a first steps of obtaining, for each coating in the set of coatings, a total roughness value of the external surface based on a fouling roughness value, a macro roughness value and a micro roughness value associated with each coating. The coating selection process comprises in a second step selecting a coating from the set of coatings, wherein the selected coating has a minimal resistance rating associated with the obtained total roughness value for the time period. The method further comprises applying the selected coating to the external surface of the man-made object.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the selected coating is configured to protect against one of fouling, corrosion, solid and liquid particle abrasion, deterioration as a result of UV absorbance and ice.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38667
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14391259', '14186214', '15110334', '13484958', '13484949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7505220397335653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5054745174970763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7260172875099165
- Mean Citation Score: 124.557236
- Max Citation Score: 138.4921
- Similarity Product: 81.43628517817258

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

Dataset: test