PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16371804
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["324", "681000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a system and method for multi-phase flow decomposition using electrical capacitance imaging techniques. The present invention provides a system and method to obtain permittivity distributions at a plurality of frequency markers using volume tomography image reconstruction to determine volume fraction of each phase and to produce images of the volume fraction for each phase.

Claim (Index 21):
A system for generating a three-dimensional tomograph of a vessel interior or other object and for multi-phase flow decomposition, the system comprising:\n a capacitance sensor device comprising a plurality of electrodes for placement around the vessel or the object, wherein the capacitance sensor device is adapted to provide electric field distribution and sensor sensitivity in three geometric dimensions; data acquisition circuit in communication with the capacitance sensor device for receiving input data from the three-dimensional capacitance sensor device, the data acquisition circuit adapted to output electric phase signals at different frequencies; a hardware processing system in communication with the data acquisition circuit, the hardware processing system programmed with instructions for executing on the hardware processing system to: 1) measure electric phase shift in degrees or radians between an input signal to the sensor device and the current produced at an output of the sensor device at all of the different frequencies; 2) reconstruct a three-dimensional volume image from the electric phase shift measured at all of the different frequencies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57895
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15885287', '15138751', '15262565', '14191574', '11909548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5612022218517934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5513958626565074
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5602215859322648
- Mean Citation Score: 319.6367400000001
- Max Citation Score: 410.68002
- Similarity Product: 399.4075530251384

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

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