PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["073", "592000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a method and apparatus for assessing a condition of a fluid conduit from its interior. The method comprises providing a measurement apparatus comprising at least one wideband acoustic transducer within the fluid conduit and transmitting a wideband acoustic signal from the measurement apparatus to excite a broadside resonance in at least a portion of the fluid conduit. A wideband acoustic signal is received in the measurement apparatus due to a broadside resonant response of the fluid conduit to obtain a wideband acoustic data set; and the data set is analysed to assess the condition of the fluid conduit.

Claim (Index 28):
The apparatus according to  claim 27 , wherein the transducer comprises backward or rearward facing transducers, which are arranged to insonify the fluid conduit and/or receive a signal from a region of the fluid conduit behind the apparatus in a direction of travel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14346437', '11470419', '15108513', '15553560', '12800081']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7130356819821488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864338448552081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6903754982694549
- Mean Citation Score: 177.41280999999995
- Max Citation Score: 188.70538
- Similarity Product: 130.04246133666516

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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