PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "597000"]

Abstract:
A device and method for determining characteristics of a concrete sample includes the use of multiple transducers. The transducers may couple to the concrete surface so that they can impart or receive mechanical waves from the sample. An area within a plane in the concrete sample is bounded by a collective extent of mechanical waves that pass through the plane and has a dimension at least as long as a distance between reinforcing bars in the concrete.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for determining characteristics of a concrete sample, comprising:\n providing\n a frame, and \n a plurality of transducers secured by the frame at predetermined positions with respect to each other and having respective coupling surfaces; \n placing the coupling surfaces on a surface of the concrete sample; actuating a first plurality of the transducers secured by the frame so that the first plurality of transducers impart respective mechanical waves in the concrete sample; and receiving output signals from a second plurality of the transducers secured by the frame in response to reception of the mechanical waves by the second plurality of transducers, wherein the first plurality of transducers are arranged in the frame so that an area\n that is within a plane offset from the coupling surfaces and in the concrete sample and \n that is bounded within the plane by a collective extent of the respective mechanical waves that pass through the plane and that are receivable by the second plurality of transducers \n has a dimension at least as long as a distance between adjacent reinforcing bars in the concrete sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48148
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14698603', '11886563', '14855208', '10451346', '10597487']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6291498655869542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5235802402856734
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6185929030568261
- Mean Citation Score: 180.700432
- Max Citation Score: 331.77368
- Similarity Product: 289.1574970459461

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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