PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15755987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["166", "336000"]

Abstract:
A marine riser component which has an integrated fatigue damage sensor in which the sensor is adapted to be damaged by stresses and strains applied to the marine riser component, and is adapted to record said damage on the sensor. The sensor is optionally integrated into the body of the marine riser component in a location on the component that transmits fatigue loads to the sensor at a known stress concentration factor, optionally in a recess on the body, for example, in a closed recess on an outer surface of the marine riser component.

Claim (Index 79):
A method of assessing fatigue damage in a marine riser component, the method comprising:\n integrating a fatigue damage sensor into a body of the marine riser component in a location on the body that transmits fatigue loads to the sensor at a known stress concentration factor, wherein the location is chosen based on the known stress concentration factor required to apply sufficient fatigue loads to the sensor to damage the sensor during a known period of normal operation of the marine riser, and wherein the fatigue loads applied to the sensor during normal operation are limited in accordance with the stress concentration factor to loads that cause damage to the sensor over the known period of normal operation without destruction of the sensor as a result of the fatigue loads during the normal period of operation; recording on the sensor fatigue damage to the sensor caused by stresses and strains applied to the body; and collecting said fatigue damage from the sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04082
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12029376', '13707121', '13300155', '12850716', '14127100']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7621838164271673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.482447770950032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7342102118794538
- Mean Citation Score: 149.97666199999995
- Max Citation Score: 160.38891999999996
- Similarity Product: 96.19397849453208

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

Dataset: test