PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16063659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["385", "013000"]

Abstract:
A method for non-intrusive pipeline testing involves constructing the pipeline at a construction location that is above ground, affixing an optical fiber along a surface of a length of the pipeline that is at the construction location, measuring dynamic strain experienced by the length of the pipeline by performing optical interferometry using the optical fiber, and moving the length of the pipeline from the construction location to a different installation location. The optical fiber includes at least one pair of fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”) tuned to reflect substantially identical wavelengths with a segment of the optical fiber extending between the FBGs.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 7  wherein a clamp is used for clamping, wherein the clamp comprises a body portion coupled at one end to a first arm and at an opposing end to a second arm,\n the clamp having a resilient portion to permit the clamp to elastically deform from a closed state in which the clamp is fastened around the pipeline to an open state in which the clamp is radially moveable off the pipeline, wherein application of a force separating the first and second arms biases the resilient portion and transitions the clamp from the closed state to the open state, and wherein the resilient portion returns the clamp from the open state to the closed state when the force is removed, \n at least one of the body portion, the first arm and the second arm having a clamping surface to clamp a portion of the optical fiber against the pipeline when the clamp is fastened around the pipeline, and a clamping mechanism operable to extend at least part of the clamping surface towards the pipeline when the clamp is secured to the pipeline to increase a clamping force applied by the clamping surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77419
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15739336', '15323932', '15323937', '15575981', '13256633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8269182750125168
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164489259969495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7958713401109601
- Mean Citation Score: 229.641592
- Max Citation Score: 323.4928
- Similarity Product: 270.1221498705864

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

Dataset: test