PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["366", "002000"]

Abstract:
A waterborne facility on a body of water includes a primary spoolable pipe and a pump. The end of the primary spoolable pipe may be guided from the waterborne facility to a location proximate to a selected site. The pump may be used to discharge a flowable material through the primary spoolable pipe. The waterborne facility may include a ready-mix concrete preparation system. However, the waterborne facility may deliver any flowable material to a selected site, which may be a land surface, underground, on a water surface, or underwater. Illustrative flowable materials include seawater, grout, cement, and sediment/mud.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of delivering a ready-mix concrete composed of a plurality of components to a target location for a pour site, comprising:\n (a) transporting the plurality of components in an unmixed state to a waterborne facility on a body of water, the plurality of components including at least aggregates and cement, wherein the aggregates are selected from one of: gravel, sand and crushed stone, and wherein the aggregate makes up at least 50% of a total volume of the ready-mix concrete; (b) storing the cement in a compartment on the waterborne facility, the compartment being inside a hull of the waterborne facility; (c) conveying the cement from the compartment to a mixing volume; (d) preparing the ready-mix concrete at the waterborne facility by mixing the plurality of components in the mixing volume at the waterborne facility; (e) pumping the ready-mix concrete into a primarily non-metal spoolable pipe extending between the waterborne facility and the target location, wherein the pump is positioned on the waterborne facility; (f) conveying the ready-mix concrete to the target location via the spoolable pipe, wherein a portion of the spoolable pipe between the waterborne facility and the target location is at least partially submerged in the body of water; (g) floating a section of the spoolable pipe in the water using at least one flotation device; and (h) at least periodically resupplying the waterborne facility with the plurality components using at least one supply vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11321
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14303274', '14642536', '15161927', '11858610', '12355372']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7453400177032252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5454684704206146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7253528629749642
- Mean Citation Score: 188.1481088
- Max Citation Score: 435.53445
- Similarity Product: 350.00953408648974

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