PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018424
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "437000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for measuring steam mass flow in a conduit by simultaneously measuring absorbance and variable steam patterns by light detectors receiving coherent light.

Claim (Index 9):
A method to measure steam quality and mass flow through a conduit having a longitudinal axis and predetermined cross sectional area comprising:\n (a) Detecting light from a first coherent light emitter and second coherent light emitter spaced along the longitudinal axis by a corresponding first light detector and second light detectors disposed transverse to the longitudinal axis of the conduit, having spaced a predetermined distance with a measured light path length for each of the first coherent light emitter and first light detector and the second light coherent light emitter and second light detector; (b) Determining that the signal detected by the first detector is received by the second detector; (c) measuring the difference in time between the receipt of the said signal by the first detector and the receipt of the signal by the second detector. (d) measuring the absorbance of light through the conduit from the second coherent light emitter and the second light detector; and (e) calculating the velocity by dividing the predetermined distance of the spaced first and second light detectors by said difference in time, the average concentration applying the Beer Lambert Law of the flow and the mass flow determined by the product of the concentration, cross sectional area, and the velocity of the steam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.22727
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15130859', '15502615', '14760984', '11912224', '10579847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6255954510706457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4562239633183402
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6086583022954153
- Mean Citation Score: 121.0479688
- Max Citation Score: 149.89705
- Similarity Product: 125.70451189693212

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

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