PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["073", "598000"]

Abstract:
A method and a device for the near-surface, non-destructive inspection by means of ultrasound of a rotationally symmetric workpiece having a diameter that changes from section to section are provided. The method and device are based on the insonification of an ultrasonic test pulse into the workpiece at a defined insonification angle and the subsequent recording of an ultrasonic echo signal from the workpiece. Echo signals that trace back to a near-surface region ROI of the workpiece are identified and evaluated. Then, a graphic representation of the surface of the workpiece is generated.

Claim (Index 38):
The testing device according to  claim 35 , wherein the phased array test probe comprises a plurality of ultrasonic transducers divided into a plurality of individually controllable transducer segments, and the control unit is further configured to cause the transducer segments to insonify the workpiece at different insonification angles via the plurality of ultrasonic test pulses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7069
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14651575', '12993429', '12811558', '13062032', '10539853']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7366142611403226
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5673536090399975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7196881959302901
- Mean Citation Score: 300.327664
- Max Citation Score: 476.1641
- Similarity Product: 368.3735664643824

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

Dataset: test