PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936954
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "081000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for measuring a position of a point on a submerged surface. The apparatus includes: a platform; a liquid-tight pressure vessel fixedly coupled to the platform, wherein the liquid-tight pressure vessel is formed in part by an optically transparent enclosure; a pan-tilt mechanism coupled to the platform and disposed inside the liquid-tight pressure vessel; a camera mounted to the pan-tilt mechanism; a laser range meter affixed to the camera; and a refractive index sensor coupled to and disposed outside the liquid-tight pressure vessel. In accordance with one proposed implementation, the optically transparent enclosure is spherical, the pan-tilt mechanism has a pan axis and a tilt axis that intersect at a center of the optically transparent enclosure, and the laser range meter is located to emit a laser beam that is perpendicular to the optically transparent enclosure.

Claim (Index 13):
The method as recited in  claim 12 , further comprising:\n installing a refractive index sensor outside the liquid-tight pressure vessel; using the refractive index sensor to measure an index of refraction of the liquid; and calculating a speed of light in the liquid based on the measured index of refraction, wherein calculating the distance traveled by light emitted from and returned to the laser range meter comprises taking into account the speed of light in the liquid through which the emitted and returned light propagates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15714
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15796880', '13921246', '13892336', '14672952', '15183128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6183137323337408
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4819491674690666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6046772758472734
- Mean Citation Score: 194.104476
- Max Citation Score: 206.87772
- Similarity Product: 154.83808188961032

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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