PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["702", "100000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for non-destructive, in situ, positive material identification of a pipe selects a plurality of test areas that are separated axially and circumferentially from one another and then polishes a portion of each test area. Within each polished area, a non-destructive test device is used to collect mechanical property data and another non-destructive test device is used to collect chemical property data. An overall mean for the mechanical property data, and for the chemical property data, is calculated using at least two data collection runs. The means are compared to a known material standard to determine, at a high level of confidence, ultimate yield strength and ultimate tensile strength within +/−10%, a carbon percentage within +/−25%, and a manganese percentage within +/−20% of a known material standard.

Claim (Index 2):
A system for non-destructive, in situ, positive material identification of a pipe which is part of a pipeline, the system comprising:\n polishing means for preparing a polished portion of a surface of the pipe within each of a plurality of test areas on the pipe, each test area being separated axially and circumferentially from the other test areas; a tensile property tester having a ball indenter for collecting mechanical property data from a mechanical properties test location within the polished portion of each test area, the tensile property tester providing a predetermined number of readings for a mechanical property at the mechanical properties test location, the predetermined number of readings constituting a mechanical property data collection run and being used to calculate a mean for the mechanical property data collection run; and an optical emission spectrometer for collecting chemical property data from a chemical properties test location within the polished area of each test area, each chemical properties test location being adjacent to a respective mechanical properties test location, the optical emission spectrometer providing a predetermined number of readings for a chemical property at the chemical properties test location, the predetermined number of readings constituting a chemical property data collection run and being used to calculate a mean for the chemical property data collection run. wherein an overall calculated mean for at least two of the mechanical property data collection runs and an overall calculated mean for at least two of the chemical property data collection runs is compared to a known material standard.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92105
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14565206', '14248116', '14248166', '15111560', '10554075']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1595914634576657
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5415604621947524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1977883633313744
- Mean Citation Score: 164.89888080000003
- Max Citation Score: 380.85953
- Similarity Product: 332.94399081878424

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

Dataset: test