PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["073", "170290"]

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to monitoring underwater organic solid buildup and related emissions, and more particularly to a monitoring system and method using a sonar-equipped drone watercraft and a monitoring controller in communication with the drone watercraft to monitor the underwater organic solid buildup and related emissions and to analyze and present results of the analysis.

Claim (Index 17):
In a lagoon facility, a method of monitoring and calculating a plurality of lagoon-related data for maintaining a lagoon constructed in the lagoon facility wherein the plurality of lagoon-related data includes a volume of a sediment and solid mass material buildup deposited or formed at a bottom portion of the lagoon and a volume of a body of water on top of the sediment and solid mass material buildup, the method comprising the steps of:\n transmitting an operational sequence to a monitoring system controller, wherein the monitoring system controller includes at least a microprocessor and a database; initializing a drone watercraft for capturing a plurality of data samples over a time period, wherein the drone watercraft is equipped with one or more sonar transducers, a GPS device, and a network interface device, wherein the plurality of data samples include a plurality of sonar data and GPS data, and wherein the monitoring system controller is communicatively coupled via one or more wireless communication networks with the drone watercraft; updating a plurality of sonar watercraft parameters stored on the drone watercraft; storing the plurality of sonar data and GPS data in the database; determining an average sonar depth reading over an entire portion of the lagoon from the plurality of sonar data and GPS data in the database, wherein the average sonar depth reading provides an accurate estimate of the volume of the sediment and solid mass material buildup and the volume of the body of water on top of the sediment and solid mass material buildup.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68571
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15710957', '15710980', '14673459', '15711167', '12697746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6346246797075531
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4870045437657714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6198626661133749
- Mean Citation Score: 146.724124
- Max Citation Score: 149.73921
- Similarity Product: 98.24307976498604

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

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